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Virtual Environments offer two types of explorers: private and public. Each serves distinct visibility purposes for managing activity on your Virtual Environment and whether or not external users have access to your smart contracts through the explorer.

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Private explorer

Virtual Environment Activity view listing executed transactions with network, status, function, block, hash, from, and to columns, with Contracts, Wallets, and JSON-RPC Calls sections in the sidebar
Accessible only to your team, the private explorer provides an overview of everything happening on your Virtual Environment:
  • Activity: Overview of all the transactions executed on your Virtual Environment, with a Transactions and a Mempool view
  • Contracts: Explorer for contracts you’re monitoring (watched contracts) and contracts deployed on the Virtual Environment (virtual contracts)
  • Wallets: Explorer for wallets you’re monitoring (watched wallets) on your Virtual Environment
  • JSON-RPC Calls: Explorer for all the RPC methods executed on your Virtual Environment

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Public explorer

Enabling the public explorer generates a public URL that you can share with anyone and allow them to view transactional activity on your Virtual Environment. A Tenderly account is not required to view a public explorer. You can enable the public explorer with the Public Explorer option in the Advanced section of the Virtual Environment creation form, or at any point afterwards under Settings > Advanced. To open the public explorer and get the public URL, click the Public explorer button with a 🌐 globe icon in the Integrate Virtual RPC section at the top of your Virtual Environment’s Home view. The public explorer can be disabled at any point. Go to Settings > Advanced, uncheck Public Explorer, and apply the change.

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Contract visibility in public explorer

Create Virtual Environment form with the Contract visibility dropdown open, showing ABI only, Full source code, and None options
When you enable the public explorer, select the level of visibility for smart contracts on your Virtual Environment with the Contract visibility dropdown:
  • None: No access is provided to contracts verified on the Virtual Environment; only publicly verified contracts from the parent network remain visible.
  • ABI only: Only the ABI of your contracts is accessible but not the source code.
  • Full source code: Allows complete visibility of all contracts verified on your Virtual Environment through the public explorer.
You can change the contract visibility level at any time under Settings > Advanced.