# Mandragora's completed, in progress, and future work - Namada Community Bonfire (reduced version)

Hi everyone! Firstly, I will be briefly introducing our team and our contributions in general. After that, I will explain what we have been and are working on for almost 8–9 months already, especially in regard to Undexer and Shielded Live explorer.

We, Mandragora's team, based in Barcelona, Spain, have been actively involved in Namada since February/March 2023 (a year and a half already - what a journey!). Since then, we really hard worked and actively contributed, and we keep contributing nowadays, in things as varied as continuous participation on early and current testnets, technical, validator and general support, technical assistance to the team, feedback via public channels, DMs, issues or PRs, guides, technical edition via third-party companies collaborating with Namada, English to Spanish translations/proofreading, Spanish-speaker regional community management, continuous development of key tools and explorers such as Undexer and Shielded Live, etc.

That being said, I will now give further details about two of our main and key contributions to Namada, which we currently keep improving and maintaining - Undexer and Shielded Live explorer. In regard to Undexer, I will provide a brief definition of it and then expand to project's goals, design, overview, key features, and CLI. Finally, in Shielded Live explorer's case, I will highlight current features and future ones in the pipeline.

## Undexer (Namada network indexer)
The Undexer is a caching and reporting layer which sits in front of the nodes of the Namada network. Its purpose is to respond to queries faster than the node can do, and to support queries that for reasons of efficiency the node cannot or will not support itself.
## Goals
- **Versioned API**
- **Rapid Sync Speed**
- **Lean, Fast, and Easy Development and Deployment**
- **Reliable Paginated Retrieval**
- **Complex Search Queries**:

Implementation keeping these goals in mind should result in an Undexer usable as a data source for the frontend, as well as a generic service component in any other setup working with Namada network.

## Design
The benefits of the design decisions were:
- Richer data availability
- Easier integration between backends and frontents
- Much simpler and cheaper flow of data
- Significant speedup in syncing
- Greater stability
- Easier deployment and upgrading

## Project Overview
- **Namada Undexer REST API**
Provides access to Namada blockchain data.
- **Blockchain Status Retrieval**
Retrieve real-time information about the blockchain’s current status and health.
- **Search Capabilities**
Search blockchain data via string queries, covering blocks, transactions, addresses, and proposals.
## Key Features
- **Block Information**
- **Transaction Data**
- **Validator Information**
- **Governance Proposals**
- **Transfers**
- **Parameters**
- **Epoch and Staked Information**
- **Addresses & Balances**
## CLI
The Undexer project also provides a Command-Line Interface (CLI) for developers and operators to interact directly with the Namada blockchain.


# Shielded Live Explorer
## Main features
- View real-time data on blockchain status, transactions, and block details.
- Search blocks, transactions, epochs, and accounts for quick data retrieval.
- Track validator status and performance.
- Access governance proposals and voting details.

## Planned features
- MASP metrics section page.
- All transactions types history in the account view.
- Delegations/unbondings/redelegations made/ongoing in the acccount view.
- Power events and delegators list in the validator view.
- Uptime tracker section page adding missed blocks/blocks to downtime jailing metric.
- And more minor improvements.