WAX Blocks is awesome
If you've been following me for a while, or even if you first saw my content when I announced the launch of GM token... You've probably figured out that I'm a huge supporter of the WAX blockchain. Of course Hive is the best blockchain out there, but WAX is killing it with NFTs and blockchain gaming. I've been using WAX daily for a couple years now and I thoroughly enjoy collecting worthless NFTs on it lol. One of the biggest headaches with WAX is the kinda-confusing account management that it adopted from EOS (the chain WAX is based on).
99% of my activity on the WAX blockchain is playing games. There's no fees and transactions are nearly instant. The only thing you have to manage is your wallet resources which are NET, RAM, and CPU. Just like Resource Credits on Hive, you need resources to transact and interact with the blockchain in place of transaction fees. My go-to block explorer up until today for WAX was Bloks because it was the only one with the feature set I needed for account management. A couple days ago, WAX tweeted that they had launched their own native block explorer, called WAX Block.
Now if you're not already bored to death reading about a block explorer... This only gets more boring! Not really, to me it's actually pretty exciting. Bloks is very clunky and outdated. WAX Block is very clean, smooth, and good looking!
Right one the front page, you get a live activity tracker that shows the top 5 dapps' activity per block. It's kinda mesmerizing sitting and watching the blocks go by and the different dapps transacting. There's some super familiar names right here on the most active dapps, like Alien Worlds and Farmers World. These are 2 games built on the WAX blockchain with very active user bases (and shit tons of bots, more than likely). Below the live graph of transactions, you can see all kinds of cool stats.
It has a live "transactions per second" counter, which is pretty cool. It shows how flexible the chain is with a max estimated at 2,588 transactions per second. With 13.5 million wallets and counting, there have been over 309 million NFTs minted on the WAX blockchain. Try to tell me that WAX isn't the king of NFTs... Over 200,000 NFT transactions have happened in the past 24 hours and all of this is happening on a 100% carbon neutral blockchain. I'm not shilling but these stats are pretty impressive.
The account tab gives a general overview of your wallet, along with transaction history below. Here you can see the amount of each resource you have staked as well as your WAX balance. You can also view the NFTs in your wallet and interact with contracts if you have contracts on that particular wallet like this one. This is the GM token contract wallet.
The Wallet tab is the most useful, because it allows you to do literally everything. You can stake WAX for the different network resources, vote for block producers, and send tokens. One very useful tool on the wallet page is the option to configure multi-sig which requires signatures from multiple wallets to send transactions. It's a basic feature set but it's literally everything you need to manage your account aside from having an integrated NFT market. That kind of feature addition in the future would not surprise me at all.
WAX Block is compatible with both Anchor wallet and WAX Cloud Wallet. I use both, so this is extremely helpful. Whether you're a regular WAX user or a complete WAX noob, you're going to love WAX Block. I'm going to be using it going forward in place of Bloks because it's so much faster and more clean UI. Like I said, I'd love to see some kind of NFT market implementation that could rival AtomicHub. This thing is only a few days old, and I have literally no complaints.
Now off to celebrate the Ethereum Merge with an ice cold beer and work on the GM roadmap.
stay weird, frens
0xNifty
Have your tried out WAX Block yet?
Thanks for reading! Much love.
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