Hi, I'm LordKuba — the developer and operator behind Lord Of Pearls. This page is the short story of who I am, why this explorer exists, and how to verify everything you see here is real.
Why this explorer exists
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.
What I do
I run a Pearl full node (pearld) and the dashboard you're looking at, on hardware I own and pay for.
I write the entire codebase myself — Python on the backend, raw HTML/CSS/JS on the frontend. No frameworks, no third-party trackers (just Google Analytics for understanding traffic).
I publish articles in the blog covering PEARL mechanics, mining setup, and ecosystem analysis.
I respond to every issue and feature request from the community — usually within a day.
What I don't do
I don't sell user data — there's no signup, so there's nothing to sell.
I don't run paywalled features — every metric and tool is free forever.
I don't promote scammy projects. The only sponsored placements are GPU rentals (RunPod, Vast.ai) because every Pearl miner uses them anyway. Direct sponsorship is available for legitimate ecosystem partners.
I don't claim to be the official Pearl team. I'm an independent contributor with no affiliation. If you need authoritative information about the protocol itself, consult pearlresearch.ai directly.
How to verify everything
Independence only matters if you can audit it. Here's how:
Block + transaction data — every figure on the explorer is derived from a public Pearl full node. Cross-check any number against Blockbook or your own pearld instance.
Orphan miner attribution — we recover the miner of every orphan by parsing the raw block hex (getblock <hash> 0) and decoding the coinbase. The technique is documented in the orphan blocks page; you can replicate it.
Wallet rankings — both miner rank (by all-time blocks mined) and holder rank (by current Blockbook balance) are computed live; we publish the methodology on each respective page.
Source of truth — when in doubt, hit the chain RPC directly. The explorer is a presentation layer over public data, not the data itself.
How this is funded
Running a full node, an HTTPS-served dashboard, and a continuously-refreshed indexing pipeline costs money — hosting, bandwidth, monitoring, and a lot of my time. The site has three revenue streams, in order of importance:
Direct sponsorship slots — see /advertise for the ticket-based model.
Affiliate links — RunPod and Vast.ai pay a small commission when miners sign up via our /mine page. No cost to the user; supports the explorer.
Tips — see /tip. Optional, in PEARL / Kaspa / USDT.
I publish my approach to monetization 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.