What is Solscan and how do you use it?

Solscan is a block explorer for Solana, a website that lets anyone search the public record of the Solana blockchain. You paste in a transaction signature, wallet address, token or block and see what happened onchain. It only reads data, so it cannot move, freeze or recover funds.

What is Solscan.io and who runs it?

Solscan.io is the explorer's address. Cointelegraph reported that Solscan was founded in 2021 and had more than three million monthly users when Etherscan, the main Ethereum explorer, acquired it on January 3, 2024. Etherscan's own site lists Solscan among the explorers it runs, as of November 2026. Etherscan's tool is covered in what Etherscan is.

What is Solscan used for?

Common uses include:

• Checking a transfer. See whether a payment succeeded or failed and what it contained.
• Viewing a wallet. An address page shows its tokens and activity history.
• Looking up a token. Token data and NFT metadata help confirm you have the right token contract address, which Solana calls a mint address.
• Exploring DeFi and NFT activity. Solscan offers activity pages, dashboards and APIs for Solana data.

Solana stores tokens differently from Ethereum. Solana's docs explain that each token a wallet holds sits in its own token account, usually an associated token account derived from the owner's address and the token's mint. That is why Solscan has a setting to show token account transactions alongside the main address. Basic explorer steps are in how to use a blockchain explorer.

What is the TXID on Solscan?

Solscan calls the transaction ID a signature. Solana's documentation says every transaction carries one signature per required signer, and the first, from the account paying the fee, also serves as the transaction ID. Nodes use it to look the transaction up.

To find one, copy the signature from your wallet's activity details and paste it into Solscan's search bar. A Solana signature looks different from an Ethereum hash, and the general idea is explained in what a transaction hash is.

What is spam dusting on Solscan?

Spam dusting is when unknown senders push tiny amounts of SOL, junk tokens or NFTs into many wallets. On Solana this is often tied to address poisoning. A 2023 report described attackers sending dust from addresses made to resemble ones the victim already uses, hoping the victim later copies the fake address from their history. Some dust also carries links in the memo.

Solscan's settings, opened from the Settings button next to the theme switch at the top right, include options to:

• Hide low-value transfers across transfer tables.
• Hide tokens Solscan flags as spam, scams or suspicious.
• Hide failed transactions.

Hiding entries only changes the view. The transfers still exist onchain. The same report warned against clicking memo links or interacting with unknown dust tokens, and advised never copying an address from transaction history.