what's Herd?
Herd is an onchain exploration platform designed to simplify searching, understanding, and interacting with smart contracts. It integrates functionalities similar to Etherscan for transaction and contract data, Google for broad search, and AI like ChatGPT for natural language explanations, providing users with an intuitive app to navigate blockchain activity without manual fumbling through contracts or transactions. The platform launched its beta in April 2025 after raising $1.8M in pre-seed funding. It targets developers, traders, and users needing quick insights into onchain events, enabling actions directly from search results.
Herd added a 'logs only' transaction view showing decoded logs and their invoking functions.
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x.com/herd_ecoAdded a "logs only" view mode for transactions that displays decoded logs and the function/trace that invoked them in a simple viewer interface.
Featured in IOSG's crypto starter kit, increasing project awareness among IOSG's partner network.
Herd receives newsletter shoutout from Etherscan.
Product now includes slot-verified upgrade history for any proxy with one-click version toggling and implementation version navigation on contracts and transactions in the explorer.
Product now displays token transfers alongside the functions that invoked them, demonstrated through analysis of the yETH hack exploit.
V2 product launch scheduled for January 2026, and team consists of all ex-founders with 2 million lines of code written over the past year.
New "Trails" feature is now live, enabling drag-and-drop creation of complex DeFi transaction bundles (zaps) with single-signature UX, and the team seeks partnerships with vault curators and DeFi operators.
Developer tool gains traction at ETH Global NYC hackathon, being recommended alongside Tenderly as alternative to Etherscan for debugging.
Full product launches today, moving out of beta phase with reported 3-5x improvement in crypto app development speed.