Round 1 / FVM Explorer

A wide variety of stakeholders require access to detailed, low-latency and block level information about smart contract execution on the FVM. Stakeholders include Web3 app and tooling developers; regular users of said applications; and product, engineering and governance teams at Protocol Labs.

Web3 app and tooling developers need to scrutinise events at a transactional and contract level to debug development tools and for validation and monitoring purposes. FVM Explorer addresses this need by providing low latency access to smart contract events.

Web3 is a nascent frontier and a key obstacle to broader adoption is suspicion and a trust deficit. Therefore, the need to offer users reassurance about app functionality is a strong pain point for many app developers. FVM Explorer addresses this need by offering an extensive suite of tools to verify source code. In the period Oct 2023 to Mar 2024, Starboard has continued to boost FVM Explorer by adding a suite of contract verification tools (https://fvm.starboard.ventures/explorer/verifier) that allow users to confirm that a smart contract’s source code matches the deployed code byte for byte. This contract verification process provides confidence in the integrity of an application and promotes transparency among smart contracts in FVM.

Regular users desire reassurance about what smart contracts are actually doing, particularly when large sums of token are at stake. FVM Explorer allows users the ability to directly inspect pre-verified source code and ABI of smart contracts, and establishes a source of truth for users to scrutinise individual smart contract transactions in granular detail.