BlockBuster

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Problem Statement

Today a creator posts Twitter threads when a significant event (like a hack, etc) happens. They paste screenshots from blockchain explorers (like Etherscan, etc) to validate their findings. On top of that there are thousand people publishing analysis for the same event.For a creator, BlockBuster significantly reduces the time and effort needed from their end to create an engrossing story along with adding easy visual add-ons on top of everything.For a reader, BlockBuster is one platform where they can find all social commentary related to a block or a transaction or a wallet (or any combination of these). Readers further get a chance to comment on these stories along with the ability to upvote or downvote a story. We will additionally allow readers to easily donate/gift to the creator of a story.We will soon have a strong recommender mechanism in place wherein a creator will get transaction hashes and wallet address recommendations basis the text that they are typing for the post.

Solution

We wanted to do a timeline view function where a creator can pass multiple transaction hashes and we wanted to show the entire story in one view with each hash being represented by a parsed human readable summary of the activity. Etherscan does not expose an API for this. We will have to write a custom parsing logic for it