Blockchain technologies are rapidly transforming both academia and industry. However, large-scale blockchain data collection remains prohibitively expensive, as many RPC providers only offer enhanced APIs with high pricing tiers that are unsuitable for budget-constrained research or industrial-scale applications, which has significantly slowed down academic studies and product development. Moreover, there is a clear lack of a systematic framework that allows flexible integration of new modules for analyzing on-chain data. To address these challenges, we introduce LinkXplore, the first open framework for collecting and managing on-chain data. LinkXplore enables users to bypass costly blockchain data providers by directly analyzing raw data from RPC queries or streams, thereby offering high-quality blockchain data at a fraction of the cost. Through a simple API and backend processing logic, any type of chain data can be integrated into the framework. This makes it a practical alternative for both researchers and developers with limited budgets. Code and dataset used in this project are publicly available at https://github.com/Linkis-Project/LinkXplore
翻译:区块链技术正在迅速改变学术界和工业界。然而,大规模区块链数据收集仍然成本高昂,因为许多RPC提供商仅提供价格较高的增强API,这不适合预算有限的研究或工业规模应用,从而显著减缓了学术研究和产品开发。此外,目前明显缺乏一个系统化框架,能够灵活集成新模块以分析链上数据。为解决这些挑战,我们引入了LinkXplore,这是首个用于收集和管理链上数据的开源框架。LinkXplore使用户能够通过直接分析来自RPC查询或流的原始数据,绕过昂贵的区块链数据提供商,从而以极低成本提供高质量区块链数据。通过简单的API和后端处理逻辑,任何类型的链数据都可以集成到该框架中。这使得它成为预算有限的研究人员和开发者的实用替代方案。本项目使用的代码和数据集公开于https://github.com/Linkis-Project/LinkXplore。