Lord Of Pearls is an independent explorer for the Pearl Proof-of-Useful-Work blockchain. This page explains why it exists and how to verify that everything you see here is real.
The Pearl Proof-of-Useful-Work blockchain is one of the most interesting experiments in crypto right now — instead of burning GPU cycles on meaningless SHA-256 hashing, miners run actual large language model inference. The work that secures the chain produces something useful in the same compute step. That's a fundamental change to how we think about mining economics, and I wanted to track it.
When I started mining Pearl, I noticed the official explorer was minimal — fine for looking up a single block, but it didn't answer the questions a serious miner asks: where do I rank? am I losing blocks to orphans? who else is mining? where is the network distributed? So I built Lord Of Pearls to answer those questions, and kept building features I wished existed. Over a few weeks it grew into the most feature-complete explorer for the chain.
pearld) and the dashboard you're looking at, on dedicated hardware.Independence only matters if you can audit it. Here's how:
pearld instance.getblock <hash> 0) and decoding the coinbase. The technique is documented in the orphan blocks page; you can replicate it.Running a full node, an HTTPS-served dashboard, and a continuously-refreshed indexing pipeline costs money — hosting, bandwidth, monitoring, and ongoing development. The site has three revenue streams, in order of importance:
The approach to monetization is published openly because trust depends on transparency. Lord Of Pearls is not a charity — but it's also not optimizing for ad revenue at the expense of utility.
If you've made it this far — thanks for the curiosity. Now go check on your blocks.