Checking the DRC-20 balance on $DOGE —why can’t you just read it directly like you would in a banking app? The blockchain only stores transaction records. Token balances, swaps, meme20, staking, and other states are all results calculated by someone scanning the blocks. The web interface you open is backed by someone else’s server doing the calculations. If you want to calculate it yourself, you need to run a node locally and build a local database from the relevant protocol data. Sync progress, log indexing, and the query browser are all available in the interface, and you can still check the parts that have already been indexed even when offline. The tricky part is that scanning the entire chain from scratch is slow, so clients like this use checkpoints: one every 10,000 blocks, about 400 MB each. Every block is verified against a manifest, and after importing, you only need to catch up on a small number of newer blocks. The data stays on your own hard drive, so you don’t have to ask anyone else to verify it. For personal understanding only, NFA.

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