# Introduction

The Epirus blockchain explorer and smart contract registry is the go-to platform for both business and technical users for working with blockchain networks.

Epirus dashboard

It provides a rich interface for interpreting data on your ledger, with detailed views of:

  • Smart contracts
  • Tokens
  • Transactions
  • Blocks

The flexible user experience provides search, filtering and sorting capabilities, allowing users to easily find the data they require.

This is coupled with its integrated smart contract registry which provides unrivalled insights into the behaviour of your blockchain applications, and a RESTful API to facilitate ad-hoc reporting of your data.

Epirus screenshot

The Features section provides a more in-depth overview of Epirus.

# Networks

The Epirus blockchain explorer supports both public and private permissioned blockchains such as the Ethereum networks, Hyperledger Besu and Quorum by J.P. Morgan.

There are live instances running against the Rinkeby and Ropsten testnets for users with an Epirus Portal account.