# Features

* **Open source development**: The code is open source and available for anyone to use, explore and improve.
* **Real time home page:**  Metrics/Stats , Blocks , Transactions on the home page are updated in real time - no page refresh required.  progressive enhancement makes sure that users using the explorer from a browser with JS disabled and users who don't have support for web sockets in their browser can also use the basic functionality.&#x20;
* **Basic Block / Transaction exploration functionality**
* **Payment Disclosure.**
* **Broadcast Raw TX.**
* **Viewing keys.**

**DevOps:**

* Easy to deploy and self host.
* Support for Docker based deployments.
* TOR  support ( Tx broadcasting and making the web service available over TOR ) .


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