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Chainlens

Chainlens, built by Web3 Labs, is a blockchain explorer and analytics platform for EVM-compatible public and private chains (Ethereum, Hyperledger Besu, Quorum, Polygon, Avalanche, BNB Chain, etc.) as well as Substrate-based chains. It combines a user-friendly block explorer with powerful REST APIs for real-time transaction monitoring, smart contract verification, token and NFT tracking (ERC-20, ERC-721, ERC-1155), and integration of on-chain data with existing analytics and reporting pipelines. The API follows the EIP-3091 block explorer route conventions and is offered both as SaaS and self-hosted.

agent aware

Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Chainlens the way a machine reads it — 73 machine-readable artifacts across 38 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Chainlens scores 39.0/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 39/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 39.0/100 · thin
Contract Quality 9.2 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 39/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Chainlens

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Chainlens. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 38

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Chainlens Account-Controller API

The Account-Controller API from Chainlens — 2 operation(s) for account-controller.

Chainlens Account-Mapping-Controller API

The Account-Mapping-Controller API from Chainlens — 2 operation(s) for account-mapping-controller.

Chainlens Account-Tokens-Controller API

The Account-Tokens-Controller API from Chainlens — 3 operation(s) for account-tokens-controller.

Chainlens Account-Transactions-Controller API

The Account-Transactions-Controller API from Chainlens — 1 operation(s) for account-transactions-controller.

Chainlens Block-Controller API

The Block-Controller API from Chainlens — 2 operation(s) for block-controller.

Chainlens Block-Transactions-Controller API

The Block-Transactions-Controller API from Chainlens — 1 operation(s) for block-transactions-controller.

Chainlens Configuration-Controller API

The Configuration-Controller API from Chainlens — 1 operation(s) for configuration-controller.

Chainlens Contract-Bytecode-Controller API

The Contract-Bytecode-Controller API from Chainlens — 1 operation(s) for contract-bytecode-controller.

Chainlens Contract-Controller API

The Contract-Controller API from Chainlens — 2 operation(s) for contract-controller.

Chainlens Contract-Events-Controller API

The Contract-Events-Controller API from Chainlens — 1 operation(s) for contract-events-controller.

Chainlens Contract-Internal-Transactions-Controller API

The Contract-Internal-Transactions-Controller API from Chainlens — 1 operation(s) for contract-internal-transactions-controller.

Chainlens Contract-Transactions-Controller API

The Contract-Transactions-Controller API from Chainlens — 1 operation(s) for contract-transactions-controller.

Chainlens Dashboard-Tokens-Totals-Controller API

The Dashboard-Tokens-Totals-Controller API from Chainlens — 1 operation(s) for dashboard-tokens-totals-controller.

Chainlens Dashboard-Totals-Controller API

The Dashboard-Totals-Controller API from Chainlens — 1 operation(s) for dashboard-totals-controller.

Chainlens Dashboard-Transactions-Totals-Controller API

The Dashboard-Transactions-Totals-Controller API from Chainlens — 2 operation(s) for dashboard-transactions-totals-controller.

Chainlens Download-Abi-Controller API

The Download-Abi-Controller API from Chainlens — 1 operation(s) for download-abi-controller.

Chainlens Eip-3091-Controller API

The Eip-3091-Controller API from Chainlens — 6 operation(s) for eip-3091-controller.

Chainlens Erc-1155-Transfers-Controller API

The Erc-1155-Transfers-Controller API from Chainlens — 2 operation(s) for erc-1155-transfers-controller.

Chainlens Erc-20-Transfers-Controller API

The Erc-20-Transfers-Controller API from Chainlens — 1 operation(s) for erc-20-transfers-controller.

Chainlens Erc-223-Transfers-Controller API

The Erc-223-Transfers-Controller API from Chainlens — 1 operation(s) for erc-223-transfers-controller.

Chainlens Erc-721-Transfers-Controller API

The Erc-721-Transfers-Controller API from Chainlens — 2 operation(s) for erc-721-transfers-controller.

Chainlens Erc-777-Transfers-Controller API

The Erc-777-Transfers-Controller API from Chainlens — 1 operation(s) for erc-777-transfers-controller.

Chainlens Events-Controller API

The Events-Controller API from Chainlens — 1 operation(s) for events-controller.

Chainlens Gas-Oracle-Controller API

The Gas-Oracle-Controller API from Chainlens — 1 operation(s) for gas-oracle-controller.

Chainlens Internal-Transactions-Controller API

The Internal-Transactions-Controller API from Chainlens — 2 operation(s) for internal-transactions-controller.

Chainlens Media-Type-Controller API

The Media-Type-Controller API from Chainlens — 1 operation(s) for media-type-controller.

Chainlens Metadata-Controller API

The Metadata-Controller API from Chainlens — 2 operation(s) for metadata-controller.

Chainlens Nft-Controller API

The Nft-Controller API from Chainlens — 8 operation(s) for nft-controller.

Chainlens Node-Controller API

The Node-Controller API from Chainlens — 1 operation(s) for node-controller.

Chainlens Projects-Controller API

The Projects-Controller API from Chainlens — 1 operation(s) for projects-controller.

Chainlens Rwa-Controller API

The Rwa-Controller API from Chainlens — 5 operation(s) for rwa-controller.

Chainlens Search-Controller API

The Search-Controller API from Chainlens — 2 operation(s) for search-controller.

Chainlens Token-Controller API

The Token-Controller API from Chainlens — 3 operation(s) for token-controller.

Chainlens Token-Events-Controller API

The Token-Events-Controller API from Chainlens — 1 operation(s) for token-events-controller.

Chainlens Token-Holders-Controller API

The Token-Holders-Controller API from Chainlens — 1 operation(s) for token-holders-controller.

Chainlens Token-Transactions-Controller API

The Token-Transactions-Controller API from Chainlens — 1 operation(s) for token-transactions-controller.

Chainlens Transaction-Controller API

The Transaction-Controller API from Chainlens — 2 operation(s) for transaction-controller.

Chainlens Transaction-Events-Controller API

The Transaction-Events-Controller API from Chainlens — 1 operation(s) for transaction-events-controller.

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Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Chainlens

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Chainlens Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Features 3

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Chainlens: free public API
Free tier available; commercial use requires Web3 enterprise contracts.
Public URL: https://chainlens.com/

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Chainlens Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Chainlens Agentic Access

81 operations · 8 acting · 8 human-in-the-loop

81 operations · 8 acting

AGENTIC

Use Cases 10

What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.

What developers build with this provider.

Real-Time Transaction Monitoring

Smart Contract Event Monitoring

On-Chain Asset Tracking

Wallet Portfolio Analytics

Regulatory Reporting

Compliance Monitoring

DeFi Analytics

NFT Collection Analytics

Enterprise Blockchain Visibility

Custom Analytics Integration

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Integrations 16

Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.

Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.

Ethereum

Hyperledger Besu

Quorum

Polygon

Avalanche

BNB Chain

Arbitrum

Optimism

Base

Substrate

Ink! Smart Contracts

Web3j

MetaMask

Grafana

Elasticsearch

Kafka

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Resources

Every other property we hold for Chainlens — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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