Explorer & On-chain Reads
What is the explorer?
A public, no-login page that shows what the CRX venue is doing right now: flow, makers, the book, settlement, and oracle marks. It reads the venue from the wire and renders it. You do not need a wallet to open it.
Open it at /explorer (~1 min).
The explorer runs on testnet demo data. The figures are bot-driven, not real institutional flow. Treat them as a working picture of the venue's shape, not as production volume.
Why read the explorer instead of the API?
Because it answers a different question. The API is for building a client; the explorer is for watching the venue. It is the fastest way to see whether the venue is live, who is quoting, and how settlement is flowing — without writing a line of code.
It is also role-aware: a taker view and a market-maker view show the same venue from each side's vantage.
What does each section show?
Six tabs, each a different slice of the venue.
| Tab | Shows |
|---|---|
| Flow | Quote and bind activity over time — the venue's pulse. |
| Makers | Who is quoting, and how the desks rank. |
| Book / Risk | Open notional and exposure across the venue. |
| Settlement | Trades reaching their fixing and clearing in cash. |
| Oracle | The live marks the venue prices against. |
| Live hedges | The bot's live trade feed and open positions. |
A heartbeat at the top tells you whether the venue is online. When the services are unreachable, the page shows an offline state rather than stale numbers.
How do I read the venue directly from chain?
When you need ground truth instead of a rendered view, read the core contract over RPC. CRX is live on Sonic Testnet (chain id 14601). The three reads that matter most:
- General balance — a firm's free margin,
_generalBalance[party][token]. - Master Agreement — a bilateral netting set,
_mas[maId]. - Mark — the per-pair FX oracle the contract prices against,
expo = −8.
The on-chain read shapes are listed in Positions & Settlement API (~3 min). The contract addresses are in Live deployments (~1 min).
Why does the chain win when it disagrees with the explorer?
Because the explorer is a view and the chain is the record. The relayer is a courier, not a custodian — it never holds funds and never decides a trade. Every balance, position, and settlement lives on-chain, and that is the only place that can move money. When a rendered number and an on-chain read diverge, trust the read.
Next: Using LLMs (~2 min) — point an agent at the CRX docs.