Finding what you are looking for
The search box sits at the top of every page. It understands three kinds of thing, and it helps to know which one you are holding.
The three things you can paste in
| What you have | What it looks like | Where it takes you |
|---|---|---|
| A block number | A plain number, such as 4812390 |
That block |
| A transaction hash | 0x followed by 64 characters |
That transaction |
| An address | 0x followed by 40 characters |
That address |
A transaction hash and an address look alike at a glance. The difference is length: the address is the shorter of the two. You do not have to count them, because if you paste the whole thing the explorer works out which is which.
Paste, do not retype. These strings are long and one wrong character points at something else entirely, or at nothing at all. Use copy and paste every time, and copy the whole thing.
Searching by name
You can also start typing a name, such as a token's name. A list of suggestions appears under the box while you type, grouped into tokens, addresses and contracts, and selecting one takes you straight there.
Names only work through that list of suggestions. If you type a name and press Enter without picking a suggestion, you get the Nothing found page, because a name on its own is not something the chain can look up. When suggestions appear, choose one.
Recent searches
When the box is empty it shows what you looked up recently. That list is stored in your own browser, on your own device. It is not sent anywhere and nobody else can see it. Clearing your browser data clears it.
When nothing is found
The Nothing found page means the explorer could not make sense of what you typed. Usually it is one of these.
Something was cut off. Copying from a chat message or an email often drops the last few characters. Copy it again and check that it starts with 0x.
A stray space or a line break. Paste into the box and look at the start and end of what landed there.
It is too new. A transaction sent seconds ago may not be indexed yet. Wait a moment and search again.
It is from another chain. Addresses and transactions look the same across many blockchains, but this explorer only knows about the L2 Protocol chain. Something from a different chain will not be found here, no matter how correct it looks.
The address is not valid
If you land on a page saying an address is not valid, the thing you pasted was not 40 characters of 0 to 9 and a to f. That is almost always a typo or a truncated copy.
The explorer is catching up
Occasionally a coloured bar appears at the top saying the explorer is a number of blocks behind the chain. Nothing is wrong and nothing is lost. The explorer reads the chain and stores what it finds, and now and then the chain gets ahead of it. Very recent transactions may not show up until it catches up, which normally takes a moment.