Someone sent you a transaction hash — a long 0x… string — and told you “check it on the explorer.” Here’s exactly how to do that on xdcscan.io, the OpenScan.AI explorer for the XDC Network, and what every field on the page means.
1. Open the transaction
Paste the hash into the search bar at the top of xdcscan.io, or go straight to the URL:
https://xdcscan.io/tx/<transaction-hash>No hash? Browse the latest transactions at xdcscan.io/txs and click any of them.
2. Check the status first
The first thing to look at is the status at the top of the page:
- Success — the transaction executed and is final.
- Failed — it reverted. No value moved (the sender still paid the gas fee).
- Pending — it’s been broadcast but not yet included in a block.
If a payment “didn’t arrive,” the status line is almost always the answer.
3. Read the core fields
- From / To — the sender and recipient addresses. Click either one to open its address page and see its full history. If To is a contract, the transaction was a contract interaction, not a simple transfer.
- Value — the amount of XDC moved.
- Transaction fee — gas used × gas price. On XDC this is a fraction of a cent.
- Block — the block the transaction was included in. Click it to see the block page.
- Timestamp — when the block was confirmed.
The full field-by-field reference lives in the docs: Transaction Fields.
4. Follow the tokens
Below the core fields, the Token Transfers section lists every XRC-20/ERC-20 or NFT that changed hands inside this transaction. A single swap can move several tokens at once — this is where you see exactly what went in and what came out, with links to each token page.
5. Check internal transactions and logs
Contract interactions often trigger follow-on calls. The Internal Transactions tab shows contract-to-contract calls, and the Logs tab shows the raw events the contracts emitted. If you’re debugging a failed DeFi interaction, the answer is usually in one of these two tabs.
That’s it
Status → value → token transfers → internal transactions. That sequence answers 95% of “what happened in this transaction” questions. For a tour of the rest of the explorer UI, see the Using OpenScan docs section.