What Solscan Actually Tells You: A Practical Guide for Solana Users and Developers

Why do many Solana users instinctively paste a transaction signature into Solscan the moment something feels off? Because a blockchain explorer is the canonical “receipt” of onchain events — but that receipt is written in a technical shorthand. The question many people mistake as trivial is not “does Solscan show my transfer?” but “what does …