About
A live 3D map of the Constellation Network
DAG Visualizer is a free, browser-based visualizer that shows the Constellation Network as a living 3D scene. It connects to the network's public APIs and renders what is actually happening right now: real nodes, real locations, real activity.
The one rule
Every number on screen, and every shape that carries one, is read from live data. Nothing is estimated, and nothing is filled in with a plausible-looking placeholder.
When a feed is unavailable, the instrument says so, with NO SIGNAL, acquiring or standby, instead of showing a number it does not have.
The one thing carrying no reading is the motion: the packets travelling between nodes on the globe are a stand-in for nodes talking to each other, not a measured feed. The nodes they travel between are real.
What you can explore
Three views of the same network, each answering a different question: who and what, where, and when.
Hypergraph
· How the network is builtIts shape is a hypergraph: many independent ledgers, interlinked through one base ledger.
Each of those ledgers is a metagraph, meta because the base keeps a record about its data, never the data itself. Each validates whatever its business runs on.
The work is validating what comes in and sealing the result. It splits across layers, and a network runs only the ones it needs: L0 seals its own state, data L1 takes in what applications write, currency L1 moves a token. One node can run several.
Geography
· Where the network runsEvery node here is geolocated from its IP address, and whatever else that lookup knows comes with it: the city, the country, the provider hosting it.
Hosts run from the big clouds down to single regional ISPs, and a network's nodes may sit in one country or spread across many.
Each network chooses its own placement, on whatever matters to the business it runs: it may want to sit close to the data it serves, some providers are cheaper and some are required, and some networks want to be spread across the globe.
Snapshots
· When the network anchorsSnapshots happen at two levels. Each network snapshots on its own, at its own pace and to its own schema, holding whatever it validates: sensor readings, file fingerprints, a token's balances.
Every few seconds the base ledger takes one global snapshot, and a network anchors into it what it wants kept on the shared record. Each arrives already sealed, and stays provable without anyone having to trust who wrote it.
How often a network anchors differs, and so do the size and the kind of information it anchors. Those differences are what make each network unique.
Everything you select gets a card, and the cards tell the story rather than recite a record: the same subject is presented as the current scene sees it. Select a node while a snapshot is pinned and its card leads with the relation — signed, and by which layer — while routine facts step back; facts an ancestor card already states aren't repeated below it; and the label floating in the scene follows whichever card you expand, exactly as the camera does.
What is the Constellation Network?
Constellation is a distributed network whose native token is $DAG. Instead of one single chain of blocks, it is organised as a hypergraph: a base network (the Global L0) that many independent networks plug into. Validator nodes run all over the world and cooperate to agree on the network's state.
What is a metagraph?
A metagraph is an application network built on Constellation. Each one runs its own nodes and produces its own ledger, and periodically anchors that ledger into the global network. You can think of metagraphs as independent economies that all come together on the same base layer.
Anchoring is what the Snapshots view shows: a metagraph publishes a snapshot of its state, that snapshot is carried into a global snapshot, and it pays a fee in $DAG for the privilege. Metagraphs snapshot independently of each other and faster than the global layer, so a single global tick can carry anywhere from one to a hundred of them.
Where the data comes from
Everything on screen is read from Constellation's own public endpoints: the global snapshot stream, each metagraph's cluster info, and each node's status. Node locations come from geolocating their public IP addresses, so they are accurate to a city and a hosting provider, not to a street.
There is no database behind this site and no account to create. The page holds a rolling window of recent snapshots in memory while it is open, and forgets it when you close the tab.
Unofficial, experimental
DAG Visualizer is an independent community project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by Constellation Network or any of the metagraph projects it displays. Their names, tickers and brand colours appear here only to identify what is being shown.
It is also a work in progress: views arrive unfinished, readings can be wrong, and a feed can go quiet without warning. Nothing here is financial advice or an official record of the network. For anything that matters, use the official sources.
For the official project, see constellationnetwork.io.