Feature Proposal: Adding Buttons for Cell Data Decoding

[Flouse]

Recently, I created a simple tutorial showing how to inscribe "Hello Common Knowledge Base!" or any message to CKB Testnet. @quake suggested a new feature for CKB Explorer. And I think it is worth discussing here.

Problem

The data stored in CKB cells usually is not human-readable formats. It can be difficult for users to interpret this data.

The above cell data is the hexadecimal format of "Hello Common Knowledge Base!".

Related issue

• Is there a better way to guide a new user to read a transaction on CKB Explorer cryptape/ckb-tutorial#1

Proposed Feature

We propose some addition of buttons for decoding cell data in the CKB Explorer, similar to Etherscan

These buttons would allow users to easily decode cell data to decimal or UTF-8 string formats.
This feature would be particularly useful for some on-chain scripts such as SUDT and DAO, as their cell data could be easily decoded and interpreted by users.

Functionality

When a user clicks one of the decoding buttons, the corresponding decoder function would be applied to the cell data and the result would be displayed in a new modal or overlay. The decoded data could be displayed in plain text to make it easily accessible to users.

[homura]

Looks like a cool feature, I personally need to encode or decode some data, and before this feature is discussed, I recommend to use CyberChef

[Keith-CY]

This feature is tracked by #331