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What is Explorer?
Explorer is an GUI tool that provides a highly usable interface for 0Chain services. Explorer renders all 0Chain configurations relevant in one place. That saves a lot of time from operations, eliminating the need for looking storage config, transaction, and wallet information. Explorer seamlessly works with any 0chain service. Check out a video on how to use the GUI to upload, download, update, delete, and share files and folders on the 0Chain dStorage platform.
Features
Application Centric View for Storage Configs
Unified Search
Create and save your wallet to the cloud.
Lock Stake and Redeem Tokens
Share Unencrypted and Encrypted Files
Avoid and identify configurational and operational errors
Getting Started with Explorer
To try the explorer visit the one 0Chain network at: https://beta.0chain.net/
Creating Wallet and Allocation
Accessing the Explorer for first time from the browser will prompt you to create a wallet and allocation or recover wallet.
A wallet contains your ZCN tokens to perform storage functionalities on 0Chain dStorage. To recover a wallet you should have a mnemonic phrase for your old 0chain wallet. For instructions on how to recover using mnemonic visit the recover wallet section.​
To create a new wallet and save files on 0chain decentralized network, click on create wallet and allocation.
After clicking on create wallet and allocation, you will be redirected to files sections of the 0Stor which is the 0Chain's decentralized storage platform. (The Files section will be highlighted with the light blue color and shows the list of the files uploaded by the user on 0Chain dStorage).
Check Wallet Balance
You can check your current ZCN token Balance in the upper right corner (which is 0.00 in the below screenshot). By default, 0.5 tokens are locked in write and read pools when you create a wallet.\
Get Test Tokens
Storing files on 0Chain dStorage, require ZCN tokens to get some test tokens lets use the send me test ZCN feature located in the 0wallet section.
1. Navigate to 0Wallet on the upper right.
2. Click on Send me Test ZCN Blue Button at the centre.
3. You will see our Balance increased by 1 ZCN token in the upper right corner.
Storing and Sharing Files with Explorer
Once you have some ZCN tokens in your wallet, you can use explorer to store files through 0Stor 0Chain decentralized storage platform.
1. Navigate to 0Stor in the upper left corner of Explorer dashboard.
2. You will see various sections listed: Allocations, Files Transactions, and Shared.
Allocations
Allocations by default is selected and highlighted in blue. The Allocations section will have various subsections listed (List of Allocations, Create new Allocation, Update Allocation, Lock Read Tokens, Lock Write tokens, Read Pool Info, and Write Pool Info). By default the List of Allocations subsection is selected and highlighted in blue.
List of Allocations
In the List of Allocations section, an allocation (a storage space) by default is created for you on the 0Chain dStorage network.
The allocation was created when you clicked on create wallet and allocation during your initial access to explorer. Every allocation has an allocation id and has a size. The default size here for the storage space specified by the 0Chain is about 2147483648 (2GB). Data shards and parity shards are set to 4 and 2 by default which specify download/upload speeds and availability for the allocation.
Also, the Allocation is selected by default (highlighted in green) for storing files since there is no other allocation listed.
Types of Allocations
Using Explorer you can create multiple storage spaces (allocations) of different types to suit your storage needs. A default allocation created by 0Chain is of 2GB in size but if you want an allocation that is larger and has better availability. You can create that by clicking on the create new allocation (+) button under the Allocations section.
After Clicking on Create new Allocation button it will be highlighted in blue and prompts you to specify a simple or advance allocation.
Creating a Simple Allocation
A simple allocation only requires the size of the storage space that has to be allocated and automatically determines the number of tokens that has to be locked for creating that storage space. For example let's create an allocation of size 4GB.
The Total cost and tokens locked came out to be $ 0.002060 and $ 0.0028170933. By clicking on create new allocation button, the new allocation will be created and you will be redirected to transactions sections where you can see the amount of tokens locked for your customized allocation.
As you can see in the above screenshot, a new allocation with an id is created 2 minutes ago with 0.1 locked tokens and 0.5 locked read tokens*. The tokens are deducted from the wallet and total balance has become 0.4 on the upper right.
* Locking of read tokens might not be required depending upon the explorer implementation.

Now the allocation can be used to store files and is set as a default allocation. To verify the size of the allocation, click on the allocations button on the right.
Here you can verify the specified size of the allocation and select the allocation to use for storage.
Creating an Advance Allocation
An advance allocation can be created by specifying various other parameters other than size.
Preferred Blobbers: These are used by users to store files on their own blobbers (storage providers).
Data Shards: Increased Data Sharders provides high download/upload speeds for files. (Default is 4).
Parity Shards: Increased parity sharders ensures high availability. (Default is 2).
Size: Size of the storage space (Default is 2GB).
Write Price: Cost of writing data onto the allocation. A range has to be specified depending upon the size of the allocation and other parameters. (Lower write price means less amount of write pools tokens required for locking).
Read Price: Cost of reading data stored on the allocation. A range is specified depending upon the size of the allocation and other parameters. (Lower write price means less amount of write pools tokens required for locking).
Challenge Completion Time: Lower challenge completion time results into better SLA. (Default is 3600 sec).
For instance, let's create a 2GB Allocation which has 5 Data Shards for fast downloads and 2500 seconds completion time for better SLA.
As you can see, it requires 0.0015 tokens for creating allocation. Click on create new allocation button to create an advance allocation To verify allocation check your allocation info by navigating to 0Stor in the upper left corner of Explorer dashboard.
Here you can see the specified allocation details during the creation of an advance allocation.
Updating an Allocation
To update the configuration of an allocation using Explorer,
1.Navigate to the 0Stor
2.Click on update allocation.
Here Allocation ID for the allocation whose configuration has to be updated is required. Allocation Variables that can be changed for a particular allocation are:
Expiry: Allocation Expiry Time
Size: Size of the Allocation.
An allocation id can be fetched by clicking on list of allocations on the left .Here is a sample screenshot:
3.For example lets update the allocation which has 4294967296(4 GB) of size for smaller size (1GB) and decrease its expiry time to a day. Click on the allocation id which has a size of 4GB that is:
4.You will see the following output .Copy the allocation id specified to the Hash variable.
5. Navigate back to Update Allocation by clicking on 0Stor on the upper left area and paste the allocation id to change expiry date and size for a particular allocation.
Uploading a file
Uploading a file to an allocation using Explorer can be done through Files section under 0Stor.
1.Click 0stor on the upper left corner.
2.Select Files(it will become highlighted)
3.Click on (+)Upload file button on the right.
4.You will be prompted to specify the file that has to be uploaded,path for uploaded file (if u want to store the file in a particular folder)and allocation id for storing files in a particular storage space.
Note:If you don't specify any file path and allocation id the uploaded file will be stored in the home directory of the dStorage and will use the default allocation selected.
5. For example lets upload a sample nature photo file and store it in the new directory natureon dStorage. You can also upload a file to existing directory by specifying its name.
Note: The maximum file size for the upload should be less than 50 MB. For uploads bigger than 50MB use ZboxCLI.​
6.The total cost for uploading will be estimated automatically(in usd) To upload a file click on green upload file button. The status bar for uploading will be shown.
7.Once the file is successfully uploaded it will be listed in the files section with your file path/folder specified. We have stored the image file in nature directory so that is listed.
8. To view the uploaded file click on the forward button(see the below screenshot) and you will be forwarded to the files located in the nature directory.
9.In the directory you will see the uploaded files. We have uploaded a nature image file which is listed. To view the file click on the view button.
10.Your file will be opened and shown on the full screen.
Uploading an Encrypted File
Uploading an Encrypted file to an allocation using Explorer is done through the Files section under 0Stor.
1.Click 0stor on the upper left corner .
2.Select Files(it will become highlighted).
3.Click on the (+) Upload file button on the right.
4.You will be prompted to specify the file that has to be uploaded,path for uploaded file (if u want to store the file in a particular folder), and allocation id for storing files in a particular allocation. In case of encrypted file upload you also check the Upload as Encrypted dialog box to encrypt and upload the file .
Note: If you don't specify any file path and allocation id the uploaded file will be stored in the / directory of the dStorage and will use the default allocation selected.
5.For example lets upload an image file and store it in the new directorynatureon dStorage. We will also check the Upload as Encrypted dialog box to encrypt and upload the file.
6.The total cost for uploading will be estimated automatically(in USD) To upload a file click on the green upload file button. The status bar for uploading will be shown.
Note: The maximum filesize for the upload should be less than 50 MB. For uploads bigger than 50MB use ZboxCLI.
7.Once the file is successfully uploaded it will be listed in the files section with your file path/folder specified. We have stored the image file in nature directory so that is listed.
8. To view the uploaded file click on the forward button(see the below screenshot) and you will be forwarded to the files located in the nature directory.
9.Here you will see a lock icon under the encrypted column for your file which confirms that the file is encrypted. (See the below screenshot)
Downloading a file
For downloading a file on dStorage using Explorer
1.Click 0stor on the upper left corner.
2.Select Files(it will become highlighted))
3.You will see your uploaded files in the directories on dStorage. To know how to upload a file using Explorer check Uploading a file section.​
4.For example the nature directory is listed . To view the contents of the directory click on the forward button((see the below screenshot)
5.In the directory you will see the uploaded files.
6.To download a particular file click on the three dots(...)
7.Choose Download from the menu
8.You will see a progress icon and your file will be downloaded shortly into your local computer.
Moving a file
To move a file in another directory on dStorage using Explorer
1.Click 0stor on the upper left corner.
2.Select Files(it will become highlighted)
3.You will see your uploaded files in the directories on dStorage. For example, the nature directory is listed. .To view the contents of the directory click on the forward button((see the below screenshot)
5.In the directory you will see the uploaded files.
6.Lets move the nature1.jpg from nature directory to / directory on dStorage.To move a particular file click on the three dots(...)
7.Choose Move from the menu
8.It will ask you to specify the folder/directory name to which file has to be moved. If you are moving a file to the home directory /just leave it blank and click on the green move button.
9.The explorer will take some seconds to move the nature1.jpg ,on successful moving, the file will not be listed in the source directory.
10.To verify whether a file is moved to the / directory click on Home highlighted in blue in the upper left corner.
11.You will see the nature1.jpg listed in the home directory.
Copying a file
To copy a file in another directory on dStorage using Explorer
1.Click 0stor on the upper left corner.
2.Select Files.
3.You will see your uploaded files in the directories on dStorage.For example the nature1.jpg file and a naturefolder is located in the home directory of the dStorage.
4.Let's copy thenature1.jpg file from the /(home) directory to naturedirectory on dStorage. To copy a particular file click on the three dots(...).
6.Choose Copy from the menu.
7.It will ask you to specify the folder/directory name to which file has to be copied If you are copying the file to the home directory just leave it blank. We are copying the file to the nature directory so we will specify nature and click on the green copy button.
8.The explorer will take some seconds to move the nature1.jpg , on successful copying, the file will be copied to the nature directory on dStorage. To verify whether the file is copied to thenaturedirectory click on the forward icon.
9..You will see the nature1.jpeg listed in the nature directory.
Renaming a file
To rename a file on dStorage using Explorer
1.Click 0stor on the upper left corner.
2.Select Files(it will become highlighted). You will see your uploaded files in the folders on dStorage.For example the nature1.jpg file and a naturefolder is located in the home directory of the dStorage.
3.Let's rename the nature1.jpg file to nature.jpg located in the home directory. To rename a particular file in the directory click on three dots(...)
4.Choose rename from the menu.
5.It will ask to specify the new name for the file. We will rename it to nature and click on the green rename button.
6.The explorer will take some seconds to rename nature1.jpg on successful renaming, you will see renamed nature.jpg file listed in the home directory.
Get File Info
To get information for a particular file on dStorage using explorer
1.Click 0stor on the upper left corner.
2.Select Files(it will become highlighted)(screenshot explorer 19)You will see your uploaded files in the folders on dStorage. For example the nature.jpg file and a nature folder is located in the home directory of the dStorage.
3.Lets get information fornature.jpgfile located in the home directory. Click on three dots(...)
4.Choose file info from the menu.
5.The explorer will list the transaction id, download cost and the list of multiple blobbers on which file is stored.
Deleting a file
To delete a file on dStorage using Explorer
1.Click 0stor on the upper left corner.
2.Select Files(it will become highlighted)You will see your uploaded files in the folders on dStorage.For example the nature.jpg file and a nature folder is located in the home directory of the dStorage
3.Let's delete the nature.jpg file located in the home directory. Click on three dots(...)
4.Choose delete from the menu.
7.The explorer will ask you to confirm the deletion. Click on the green delete button to delete the file from dStorage.
8.The explorer will take some seconds to delete the file, on successful deletion the nature.jpg the file will not be listed in the home directory.
Private File Sharing
To share a file using Explorer
1.Click 0stor on the upper left corner
2.Select Files(it will become highlighted). You will see your uploaded files in the folders on dStorage.For example the naturefolder is located in the home directory of the dStorage.
3.To view the contents of the folder click on the forward button(see the below screenshot).
5.In the directory you will see two image files.
6.Let's share the encrypted nature1.jpg file located in dStorage.Click on three dots(...)
7.Choose share from the menu.
8.The explorer will ask you to specify the recipient wallet address and public encryption key .To know how to fetch wallet details check get wallet information section.
9.Specify the recipient wallet address and public encryption key and click share, the explorer will generate a link that you can share with the recipient.
10.The recipient can open the link on his local computer and find the file under the shared section of the explorer. The recipient can download or delete the file from a shared directory by clicking on three dots(..)
11.If any other user other than the recipient will try to open the shared file link explorer will deny access to the file and return contact the owner of the file error.
Wallet Operations with Explorer
You can use Explorer to perform wallet operations such as locking, staking, sending,and receiving ZCN tokens
Get Wallet Info
1.To perform operations in Explorer you need to know your wallet details. Find your wallet details by clicking on My Wallet on the upper left of the Explorer dashboard.
2.Here you will find your wallet address, public key, secret phrase, private and public encryption key.
Save wallet to cloud
To save your wallet details to the cloud for recovering it later.
1.Click on My Wallet on the upper left of the Explorer dashboard.
2. Scroll Down and click save wallet to the cloud.
3.You will be asked to enter your mobile number for verification.
4.Enter your mobile number and OTP(One Time Password) will be sent on your mobile number for verification.
5.After Entering the right OTP you will be asked to create a passphrase to encrypt your wallet mnemonic(secret phrase).Create a passphrase and click on the green save button.
6. Once your wallet is successfully stored on the cloud you can find stored wallets by clicking on My Wallet and selecting Linked Wallets.
Recover Wallet from Cloud
To recover your wallet on another computer using explorer.
1.Access the Explorer on desired 0Chain network: [https://<network number>.devnet-0chain.net/]
2.You will be prompted to create a wallet and allocation or recover a wallet. Click on recover wallet.
3.You will be provided two options to recover your wallet through a mnemonic(secret phrase) or from a cloud . Click on recover wallet from the cloud.
4.You will be asked to enter the mobile number which you have linked to your wallet when you first saved the wallet on the cloud.
5.A OTP(One Time Password) will be sent on your mobile number for verification.
6.Submit the OTP, on successful verification, the wallets linked to your mobile number will show under the Linked Wallets Section. Click on the green select button to choose the desired wallet.
7.You will be prompted to enter the secret passphrase to decrypt the wallet mnemonic. Enter the secret passphrase which you have created when saving your wallet to the cloud and click recover from cloud.

8. On successful recovery, you will be redirected to the My wallet page where you will see all your wallet details.
Recover Wallet using Mnemonic
1.Access the Explorer on desired 0Chain network: [https://<network number>.devnet-0chain.net/]
2.You will be prompted to create a wallet and allocation or recover wallet. Click on recover wallet.
3.You will be provided two options to recover your wallet through a mnemonic(secret phrase) or from the cloud . Click on recover wallet by entering mnemonic.
4.You will be prompted to enter the secret phrase. The secret phrase can be found in your old wallet details. It's a long phrase containing random words.
Example :shed install devote tortoise gasp junior dose caution raven waste layer donate library tooth load lunar weird rally cry master replace lens avocado releaseTo know how to fetch wallet information and secret phrase check get wallet info section.
5.Enter the secret phrase and click on send.
6.On successful recovery you will be redirected to the My wallet page where you will see all your wallet details.
Send and Receive Tokens
To send ZCN tokens from the wallet using Explorer
1.Click on 0Wallet
2.Select Send Tokens
3.Specify the amount of ZCN tokens to send, the recipient wallet address in the To field, and click send
4.You will be instantly redirected to the transactions page where all the transactions done using wallets are listed. Here you will see that send token transaction is in progress. On successful sending, the status bar shows completed
5. To know the transaction detail click on the hash highlighted in blue(see the above screenshot). You can see more details such as recipient wallet address, chain id, block hash, etc.
6.To verify whether the tokens are successfully sent ask the recipient to check the received tokens by navigating to his wallet.
7.Select Transactions.
8.The received tokens will be listed in Wallet transactions.
Faucet
The Faucet feature in Explorer provides test ZCN tokens for transactional purposes. To receive test tokens:
1.Click on my Wallet on the Upper left.
2.Click on Send/Receive.
3.By default, faucet will be highlighted, click on blue send me test ZCN to get tokens.
4.You will be automatically redirected to wallet transactions where the faucet transaction will be listed and your total wallet balance will also increase on the upper right.
Note: By default, the faucet provides 1 ZCN token but you can faucet multiple times to get more tokens.
Lock Tokens
Explorer can be used to lock tokens for a period of time to gain additional tokens as interest. The locking of tokens happens through a smart contract and can be done using the following steps:
1.Select 'My Wallet' on the Upper left.
2. Select Send/Receive.
3. Choose Lock Tokens. Here you will be asked to specify the amount of ZCN to lock, their lock duration in hours and minutes. For instance, let's lock 0.5 ZCN tokens for one hour. To lock click on Lock ZCN.
4.Clicking on Lock ZCN will automatically redirect you to the wallet transactions page where you will see the lock token transaction status On successful locking it will specify completed.
Unlock Tokens
To release the tokens earned as interest through locking. You have to unlock them. To unlock tokens using Explorer
1.Select 'My Wallet' on the Upper left.
2.Select Send/Recieve.
3.Choose Unlock Tokens and you will see the list of your locked tokens(below screenshot), For every locked token listing their pool id, time of locking, duration, amount of tokens locked and earned as interest is specified.
For example, in the below screenshot 0.5 ZCN tokens were locked an hour ago and they are available to unlock.
Note: The unlock button only shows once the lock duration has passed. Also on the upper right, the total tokens that can be unlocked will show below the total wallet balance(see the below screenshot).
4.To unlock tokens click on the green unlock button.
5.You will be automatically redirected to the wallet transactions page where you will see the unlock token transaction status, On successful unlocking the status will show completed and the tokens earned as interest will be added to your wallet balance.
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Stake Token
Explorer can be used to stake tokens on the miner, sharder, and blobber nodes for earning rewards. To stake tokens using explorer.
1.Select 'My Wallet' on the Upper left.
2.Select Send/Recieve.
3.Choose Stake Token You will be asked to choose blobber, sharder, or miner for staking. Each blobber, miner, or sharder has different stake requirements(max stake, service charge, and current stake).
4.For example let's stake on sharders.To stake on a particular sharder choose a particular node by clicking on the green select button.
5.Once selected, you will be asked to specify the amount of ZCN tokens for staking. Let's stake 0.5 ZCN by clicking on stake token.
6.You will be automatically redirected to the wallet transactions page where you will see the stake token transaction status, On successful staking of tokens it will specify completed and the tokens staked will be shown in the upper right corner below the total wallet balance and locked tokens.
Unstake Token
To unstake tokens on the miner,sharder, and blobber nodes using explorer.
1.Select 'My Wallet' on the Upper left.
2.Select Send/Recieve.
3.Choose Unstake Token The explorer will list the staked blobber, sharder or miner nodes. Each staked blobber, miner .or sharder node has a pool id with the number of tokens staked, earned as rewards specified. To unstake tokens click on the green unstake button.
4.You will be automatically redirected to the wallet transactions page where you will see the unstake token transaction status, On successful unstaking of tokens the status will show completed and tokens staked and earned as rewards will be added to the total wallet balance.