for developers

open apis, no auth, no rate limit, no key. everything scriptable, everything linkable, everything verifiable against the source.

live apis on this node

endpoint	returns
`/api/tip`	current pow tip
`/api/params`	protocol parameters reported by the node
`/api/anchors`	zap1 attestation anchor registry on ctaz
`/api/verify/<txid>`	zap1 attestation lookup for a zcash mainnet txid
`/api/sync-check/<height>/<hash>`	canonical comparison against this node
`/api/chain-health`	bft signer health, reorg counter, silent finalizers, version fingerprint
`/api/pool/orchard`	per-block pool history
`/metrics`	prometheus exporter, 20+ `ctaz_` gauges and counters

observability

preconfigured grafana dashboard at ctaz-crosslink-grafana.json. import into grafana pointed at a prometheus scraping /metrics. scrape config and alert rules on the metrics guide.

source

explorer at github.com/Frontier-Compute/ctaz-explorer, mit licensed, fastapi and jinja, no proprietary dependencies.

upstream crosslink contributions

PR #17 wallet: move sleep inside mempool_reconnect loop, with cargo test
PR #18 wallet: stake_orchard_to_finalizer_batch helper
PR #19 docs: crosslink chain semantics reference
PR #20 staking-cli: sequential multi-bond stake cli

related open work this explorer builds on

the attestation surface at /anchors and /api/verify uses zap1, an open attestation standard anchored on zcash mainnet. protocol docs at api.frontiercompute.cash/docs, openapi at /openapi/zap1.yaml.

the vault concept referenced at /vaults follows the shieldedvault standard, an open spec at github.com/Frontier-Compute/shieldedvault-spec.

published packages

package	purpose
`zap1`	attestation primitives client
`openclaw-zap1`	zap1 anchor tooling
`zcash-mcp`	mcp server for zcash
`zcash-ika`	ika split-key wallet integration for zcash