Add beacon chain explorers maintained by Redot

[cornucopiaa]

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[rauljordan]

Hi @Nobd these seem to be just forks of bitfly's and etherscan's. Wondering what is the use case for adding these? Would rather not confuse users

[cornucopiaa]

Hi @Nobd these seem to be just forks of bitfly's and etherscan's. Wondering what is the use case for adding these? Would rather not confuse users

Hi @rauljordan, these are public mirrors of bitfly's open-source BE with code available at https://github.com/AtlantPlatform/eth2-redot-com under the same license.

Our motivation to host these explorers as a completely free public service with long-term commitment boils down to 3 main points:

1. If bitfly's beaconcha.in goes down for whatever reason there is just 1 explorer left in the world for eth2 which is closed source (beaconscan.com). We are not comfortable knowing this as eth2 validators and staking service operators.

2. bitfly's beaconcha.in offers paid APIs (https://beaconcha.in/pricing) you have to purchase not to hit essential rate limits which we believe is something hindering the eth2 ecosystem development - we got rid of paid APIs and any kind of rate limits in our explorer instances, i.e. APIs are available for free without limitations.

3. we have noticed sporadic delays in beaconcha.in explorer syncing to the latest slot, which we tried to address with HPC dedicated hardware running in DCs in 2 regions (EU and Asia). Additionally, we are working to improve the backend logic to make these instances more stable & performant.

I want to emphasise our 20 person team is committed long-term to maintain these 2 explorer instances up & running without downtime.

[rauljordan]

Thanks for clarifying @Nobd. Unfortunately, we have mixed feelings about this. Someone pointed out that it looks like a direct copy under different branding. I think it should be clear these are mirrors of these other block explorers and it should be made clear in their front-page as well. It looks like it is completely copying everything and not giving credit to Bitfly for their work. It should retain the branding but mention right beneath the logo that it is a mirror maintained by Redot.

[rauljordan]

Spoke with beaconcha.in, and they believe you are not crediting them enough. You would need to use the same branding but mention it is a mirror maintained by you and give full credit to bitfly. Closing this PR until this is changed