Interchained Vision

Production-grade explorer for the Interchained (ITC) blockchain, with a built-in ITSL token registry and self-serve token deployer. 100% open source, self-hostable, zero analytics, zero accounts.

Features

• Real-time blocks & mempool — server-sent events fanned out from a single async indexer.
• Bloomberg-grade address pages — txs, UTXOs, ITSL holdings, stats, private notes.
• Mempool intelligence — fee categories, fee histogram, projected upcoming blocks.
• ITSL token registry — sortable, searchable, with verification badges.
• Self-serve deploy — fee estimate → review → broadcast, WIF never persisted.
• Real-time API — REST + Server-Sent Events + WebSocket + Atom feed + webhooks.
• TypeScript SDK at sdk/ (@interchained/vision-sdk).
• PWA — installable, offline-tolerant, mobile-first.

Stack

Layer	Technology
Frontend	Next.js 15 · React 19 RC · Tailwind v4 · TypeScript
Backend	FastAPI · httpx · Redis (async)
Address idx	Any ElectrumX server (yours)
Indexer	Single-process async, Redis-backed, reorg-safe
Realtime	SSE (browser) + WebSocket (SDK) + Redis pub/sub

Run in this Replit workspace

This project lives next to iNEWS. To avoid port conflicts:

Service	Port	Workflow
iNEWS frontend	5000	Frontend
iNEWS backend	8000	Backend
Vision web	8099	Vision Web
Vision API	8080	Vision Backend

To preview Vision in the Replit pane, switch the preview port to 8099.

Local dev (outside Replit)

cp .env.example .env  # fill in ITC_RPC_*, ELECTRUMX_*
# Backend
cd backend && pip install -r requirements.txt && bash start.sh
# Frontend
cd web && pnpm install && pnpm run dev

Docker (production)

docker compose up -d
# UI on http://localhost:5000, API on http://localhost:8000

Required environment

• ITC_RPC_HOST, ITC_RPC_PORT, ITC_RPC_USER, ITC_RPC_PASS, ITC_WALLET_NAME
• ELECTRUMX_HOST, ELECTRUMX_PORT (your VPS)
• Optional: PRICE_API_URL, START_FROM_HEIGHT, RATE_LIMIT_PER_MIN

NEDB Integration

Vision is wired into NEDB — an append-only, hash-chained, time-traveling embedded database built by Interchained LLC and Claude Sonnet 4.6. Standard explorers answer "what is the state now?" Vision-on-NEDB answers "what was the state at any past sequence, who caused it, and can you prove the log wasn't tampered with?" Every block header, every ITSL token operation, and every coinbase reward split is written to nedbd with causal links — the explorer is now a tamper-evident, replayable chain mirror, not just a read-through cache.

Three-layer architecture

1. DualStore (backend/app/store/dualstore.py) — operational KV. Every write Vision makes to its hot-path key/value store goes to SQLite (sync, source of truth) AND nedbd (fire-and-forget) simultaneously. Reads prefer nedbd with sticky fallback to SQLite. In production, nedb_read_pct reached 81.4% within hours.
2. blocks collection — populated by NedbBackfillTask, an asyncio background worker that walks backwards from chain tip to genesis at ~250 blocks/second, writing lean headers (height, hash, prev_hash, timestamp, n_tx, difficulty) with caused_by: [parent_height] so the entire chain becomes a TRACE-able causal graph.
3. itsl_ops + reward_splits — written by itsl_mirror.py, a sidecar daemon that bridges the ITC node into nedbd. Every ITSL CREATE / TRANSFER / APPROVE / BURN lands in itsl_ops with causal links back through the token's history; per-block coinbase splits (miner 44% / governance 51% / operator 5%) land in reward_splits.

Enabling NEDB

1. Run nedbd (the NEDB HTTP daemon) somewhere Vision can reach it. Default port is :7070.
2. Set in .env:

   NEDB_URL=http://127.0.0.1:7070
   

3. Restart Vision. The backfill task starts on boot; DualStore picks up nedbd on the next write. Watch /api/nedb/backfill-status to track progress.

NQL showcase routes

Vision exposes NEDB's query language (NQL) directly to the explorer:

Route	Purpose
POST /api/nedb/query	Arbitrary NQL — drives the /nedb console
GET /api/nedb/token-history/{id}?as_of=N	Time-travel a token to sequence N
GET /api/nedb/trace/{id}	Walk caused_by graph from any block or op
GET /api/nedb/verify	Tamper-evidence check — returns {ok, seq, head}
GET /api/nedb/backfill-status	Backfill progress, throughput, last height written

Example NQL queries (try them in /nedb):

-- What was the chain tip 2 hours ago?
FROM kv WHERE _id = "vision:tip:height" AS OF 50000

-- Full causal ancestry of a block back to genesis
FROM blocks WHERE _id = "619960" TRACE caused_by

-- Every ITSL token operation for a token, in causal order
FROM itsl_ops WHERE token = "0x...tok" TRACE caused_by

-- Blocks with the most transactions
FROM blocks ORDER BY n_tx DESC LIMIT 10

See NEDB.md for the full story — architecture diagram, design rationale, and the numbers from launch day.

License

MIT