When we heard about the idea of JAM, we were all very excited and everyone started discussing it. Recently, I’ve also begun learning and compiling some resources here jam-research.
And I begin to ponder, what might a “JAM explorer” look like?
What functionalities would users desire in it?
Is it necessary?
Who constitutes the target audience?
Should it focus more on services rather than the JAM itself?
This might be a very naive thought, but I think a big shift about JAM is the fact that we are walking away from “application specific blockchains” to just “applications”. That JAM looks more like a multi-core computer than a sharded blockchain.
In this context, probably we want something that looks more like what we see in a traditional “task manager” or “activity monitor”.
Then, probably there are views for like whole computer networks, like the kind of control panel you see if you are the IT Admin of a company. I don’t even know what those look like, but perhaps there are patterns in there we would also want to copy.
These features are probably in addition to a normal block explorer at the JAM level.
Yes, that’s one of my thought.
I then thought that there might be users with identities similar to developers who would be interested in such task manager/activity monitor.