solxplain

solxplain is a Rust-based CLI tool for inspecting Solana accounts and transactions, turning raw RPC responses and execution logs into human-readable output.

Features

Transaction Inspection

• Fetch transactions by signature
• Display execution logs in call-order
• Group logs into nested program invocations
• Show program success/failure boundaries
• Works on devnet, mainnet and testnet

Account Inspection

• Fetch account state by public key

• Display:

  • lamports
  • data length
  • owner
  • executable flag
  • rent epoch

• Useful for quick debugging and sanity checks

Design Principles

• Deterministic output
• No instruction guessing
• Logs are structured

Installation

Clone and build from source:

git clone https://github.com/idorocodes/solxplain
cd solxplain
cargo build --release

Binary will be available at:

target/release/solxplain

On Windows:

cargo install solxplain 

Usage

Inspect an Account

solxplain account <ACCOUNT_PUBKEY> --cluster devnet

Example output:

Account:
Lamports: 16251629640
Data Length: 0
Owner: 11111111111111111111111111111111
Executable: false
Rent Epoch: 18446744073709551615

Inspect a Transaction

solxplain tx <TX_SIGNATURE> --cluster devnet

Example output (simplified):

Transaction Slot: 432102040
Status: Success

Program: Compute Budget
  Result: Success

Program: Slink Program
  Log: Instruction: Create
  Inner Program: System Program
    Result: Success
  Result: Success

How It Works (High Level)

1. Fetch data via Solana RPC
2. Read transaction log messages in order
3. Print log

No instruction decoding is assumed unless explicitly known.

Roadmap (Optional / Future)

• JSON output (--json)

• Program name registry expansion

• SPL Token account decoding

• Instruction-level summaries

• Mainnet support

• Web UI wrapper