I built a lite Ethereum explorer for node runners — talks directly to your node, hosted on IPFS, no install needed

Hi there,

I made a niche thing, probably useful for a small group of node runners who wanted something like this.

It’s basically a lightweight, IPFS-hosted Ethereum explorer — like Etherscan, but it queries your own node directly via JSON-RPC. It’s just a static HTML page, so you open it, enter your RPC, and use it. No backend, no setup — just a page.

Access

• nodex.monkale.eth
• nodex.monkale.eth.limo

Repo

github.com/monkale-io/ethereum-node-explorer

I built it after I started running my own node and wanted a simple web UI to explore it. I found an old explorer (Alethio ethereum-lite-explorer) — it still works and is actually quite good, but it was abandoned ~6 years ago — so I decided to rewrite it with a modern stack and put it on IPFS, so it can stay just a static page without any backend or services to run.

Planning to maintain and evolve it. Feedback and contributions are welcome.