An Outlook on Block Explorers and the Beacon Chain

The Beacon Chain, still independent from the Ethereum Mainnet, has been a success. It was launched in December of last year and is plowing along. The ecosystem around the Beacon Chain is also maturing, and in this talk we will look into the challenges that block explorers face in light of the upcoming changes. We look at what it entails to run a validator, in what different ways a validator can be run, and how a validator can be monitored.