What is litecoinexplorer.org?

Litecoin Explorer is a website you can run yourself that lets people look up blocks, transactions, addresses, and mempool activity on the Litecoin cryptocurrency network, similar to a search engine for a blockchain. It is built specifically to support MWEB, a privacy feature of Litecoin that lets coins move between a public ledger and a more private one, showing details like peg-ins and peg-outs and total supply, with an optional add-on service called MWEBscan that adds deeper analysis such as tracking how coins move and estimating how private a transaction really was. The explorer also speaks the same programming interface used by two well-known blockchain explorer projects, Esplora and mempool.space, which means any wallet or tool already built to work with those can point at this explorer instead without changes. It is written in plain PHP with a SQLite database for caching, with no external frameworks or build tools required, so you can drop the files into a web server folder and it works. Running it yourself means also running your own Litecoin full node, plus a separate address-indexing service since a plain node cannot answer questions like what transactions belong to a specific address. The explorer combines results from both of these behind the scenes to construct its responses. There is an optional local database you can seed and keep updated for a fuller history of MWEB peg activity and a supply chart, though the explorer works using live data alone if you skip that step. All amounts in the API are returned as whole satoshis, the smallest unit of the coin, rather than decimal amounts. The project includes a status page for checking whether your node and indexer connections are healthy. It is released under the AGPL license, which requires that anyone running a modified public version also make their source code available.