Ethernal is a block explorer for EVM chains, that can can be setup in a couple of minutes and is flexible enough to be adapted for customised chains.

When developing locally (on a Hardhat or Anvil node for example), you don't have as much tooling/infrastructure available as when you are using production chains.

Ethernal fixes that by providing, out of the box:
- A block explorer with decoded function calls/logs
- A UI for interacting with smart contracts (ABIs are automatically synchronized)
- Transaction tracing UI

Another use case is for internal hosted testnets, for teams that are collaborating on a staging mainnet fork. They also need a way to quickly spin up a UI that is flexible enough to handle chain & data reset, without having to build it themselves.

And, finally, the last use case is for app chains, Ethernal can provide them with an easy way to setup a fully-feature explorer in a couple of minutes.
On top of all of what you would expect from an explorer we are also including some that every chain need but don't necessarily want to spend time building:
- Faucet: set it up by just entering the amount to send and the cooldown interval, and funding the address, and we take care of the UI, setting up an address book for each user so they can easily request for all of their addresses, handling cooldowns, analytics.
- DEX: from a UniswapV2 address, we set up the whole dex, pools, quoting, token listing, etc...the end users get a great trading experience, and the appchain doesn't have to build anything.