11. Smart Contract Search Engine
The first-generation blockchain data browsers were focused primarily on providing snapshots of transaction details. For example, in the case of Bitcoin, they displayed verbatim records of structured data, as well as the results of valid transactions executed at the rigid base protocol layer.
The unprecedented rise of smart contracts, with customized data fields and unique internal programmable logic, has brought about the need for a new mechanism, one that can provide an easy way to search and visualize this new rich, unstructured blockchain data.
This mechanism is analogous to the rise of search engines while the Web grew in the 1990s. However, blockchain networks are unique in that they record all data in a ...
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