1What a block is
Divi's history is a chain of blocks. Roughly once a minute a staking wallet somewhere wins the right to make the next one. It gathers the transactions waiting in the mempool, adds its own reward transaction, stamps the bundle with the time and a link to the block before it, and sends it to the network. That bundle is a block.
Every block has a height (its position in the chain, counting from 0) and a hash (a 64-character fingerprint of its contents). Either one identifies it. People say "block 4,263,840" rather than reciting the hash.
This page walks through mainnet block 4,263,840, made on 2026-10-18. It is an ordinary block in every way but one: it was a lottery block, so its reward transaction paid eleven lottery winners as well as the staker. That makes it a better teaching example than a plain block, and it is public history, so you can open it yourself.
2Open a block
Any of these gets you there:
- Type the height into the search box of Explorer 2.0 and press Enter. Digits only:
4263840, no commas. - Paste the block hash into the same box.
- Click a block in the Latest Blocks list on the front page, or the Block column of any transaction or address list.
- Open the address directly: /explorer2/block/4263840. A hash works in the same place.
At the top of the page the heading reads Block #4,263,840, with two small links beside it, #4,263,839 and #4,263,841, to step back or forward one block. The newest block has no forward link yet.
3The seven lines at the top
Under the heading is a card with seven rows. For block 4,263,840 on 2026-10-21 they read:
| Row | Value | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Hash | 33bee78b…dc5b3b3 | The block's fingerprint. Change one bit of the block and the hash changes completely. A copy button sits beside it. |
| Time | 2026-10-18, 07:07:04 UTC | When the staker made the block, shown in your browser's local time zone. |
| Transactions | 2 | How many transactions are inside. Two is the usual minimum, explained below. |
| Size | 0.92 KB | How many bytes the block takes on disk (944 here), in kilobytes. |
| Difficulty | 54867.2904 | How hard it was to win this block. The network adjusts it so that blocks keep arriving about a minute apart. |
| Merkle Root | b5c5cd78… | One hash that summarises all the transactions. If any transaction were altered, this would not match. |
| Confirmations | Over 5,000 and rising | How many blocks have been built on top, counting this one. The bigger the number, the more settled the block. |
Difficulty is not a cost you pay; it is the network's thermostat. More coins staking means more lottery tickets in play, so the target gets harder to keep the pace at one block a minute. A rising difficulty means more coins are staking. The number means nothing on its own, only compared with yesterday's.
4The transactions in a block
Below the card, the heading 2 Transactions introduces the list, with the usual Cards / Ledger switch. In the Ledger view the columns are #, TxID, Inputs, Outputs and Total Value; twenty show per page.
Almost every Divi block starts with the same pair:
- The coinbase. Row 1 carries a Coinbase badge and its Inputs column says New coins. In Bitcoin this is where the block reward appears. In Divi it is nearly empty: a single output of 0 DIVI, because Divi pays rewards through the second transaction instead. Its only job is to carry the block height.
- The coinstake. Row 2 is the staker's reward transaction. Its input is a coin the staker already owned; its outputs send that coin back to the staker with the reward added, and pay anyone else the rules say this block owes, such as the eleven winners on a lottery block.
Any further rows are ordinary payments made by users, in the order the staker included them. A block with only the two rows above was simply made at a minute when nobody was sending coins; on mainnet that is common.
Click a transaction id to open it. What each input and output means is its own tutorial: Read a transaction.
5Spot the staker and the reward
Open the coinstake of block 4,263,840 (transaction 2d26ee0b…). It has one input and thirteen outputs:
| Output | Amount | Who |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0 DIVI | Empty by design. An empty first output is how the network recognises a coinstake. |
| 1 | 15,834.63525391 DIVI | The staker's own coin (15,419.63525391 DIVI, the input) coming back with the 415 DIVI block reward added. The address here is the staker. |
| 2 | 252,000 DIVI | The lottery's first prize. |
| 3 to 12 | 25,200 DIVI each | Ten more lottery prizes. |
So to find out who staked a block: open its second transaction and read the address on output 1. To find out what it earned: subtract the input from that output. On a block that is not a lottery block there are no outputs 2 to 12. Block 4,268,000, for instance, has a coinstake with one input of 16,186.28682969 DIVI and one real output of 16,601.28682969 DIVI: the same 415 DIVI reward, nothing else.
The Ledger's Total Value column adds up every output. For a coinstake that includes the staker's original coin, so it is far bigger than what was actually earned. For block 4,263,840 it is 519,834.63525391 DIVI, of which 415 DIVI was the staker's reward, 504,000 went to the lottery, and the rest was the staker's own coin. How the lottery decides those eleven is in Lottery winners.
6The raw block data
Click the top card to flip it. The back, Raw Block Data, is the block exactly as the explorer's node returned it, with a copy button. The extra fields that the front hides:
| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
version | The block format. 4 on today's chain. |
bits | The difficulty target in compact form (1b0131c6). difficulty is the same thing as a readable number. |
nonce | Always 0 on Divi. Proof-of-work chains count this up while mining; a proof-of-stake chain has no need. |
time | The timestamp as a Unix number, seconds since 1970 (1792307224). |
previousblockhash, nextblockhash | The hashes the prev/next links use. The newest block has no next. |
chainwork | Total difficulty of the whole chain up to here. Nodes follow the chain with the most work. |
moneysupply | Every DIVI in existence after this block: 4,797,951,682.90625 at block 4,263,840. |
tx | The transaction ids, in order. |
acc_checkpoint | Left over from a privacy feature Divi inherited and never switched on. Always zeros. |
You can fetch exactly this from the public RPC service without the explorer; see Query the chain.
7The same block elsewhere
The block's hash is the same everywhere, which is how you check one explorer against another.
- Classic explorer: /explorer/block/<hash> takes the hash, not the height, and lists Hash, Difficulty, Confirmations, Size, Bits, Nonce, Timestamp and the transactions.
- chainz: chainz.cryptoid.info/divi/block.dws?4263840.htm takes the height. It describes the block as "extracted by Proof of Stake" and gives a Created figure of 504,415 DIVI: the 415 DIVI block reward plus the 504,000 DIVI lottery pot, counted as new coins because chainz sees them leaving the coinstake.
- Testnet: the testnet explorer has the same block page for its own chain. Heights there are much lower, and block 4,263,840 does not exist on it.
If something goes wrong
| You see | What it means |
|---|---|
| Block not found | A height above the newest block, a hash from the other network, or a mistyped hash. Check the front page's Block Height for the current top. |
| Invalid search query: "4,263,840" | Commas and spaces are not allowed; type the digits only. |
| Confirmations shows 0 or 1 | The block is brand new. Wait a minute and refresh; six confirmations is the usual bar for "final". |
| Two explorers show different blocks at the same height | For a minute after a block is made two stakers can tie and the network briefly has two tips. One side wins; refresh both after a few minutes and they agree. |
| No transaction data available | The explorer could not load the transactions. Reload the page; the block itself is fine. |
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