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 # Alephium explorer backend
 
+Alephium's explorer backend is an indexer that provides a RESTful API to query the Alephium blockchain.
+
+It serves https://explorer.alephium.org/ as well as our wallets.
+
+
+## Prerequisites
+
+- Java (11 or 17 is recommended)
+- [PostgreSQL](https://www.postgresql.org)
+- A running [full node](full-node/getting-started.md)
+
 ## Development
 
 ### 1. Install the dependencies
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    postgres=# CREATE DATABASE explorer;
    ```
 
-### 3. Start the server
+### 3. Run explorer-backend
+#### 3.1 Using `sbt`
+##### Start the server
 
 ```shell
 sbt app/run
 ```
 
-### 4. Single Jar
+##### Build the Jar
 
 ```shell
 sbt app/assembly
@@ -41,19 +54,59 @@ sbt app/assembly
 
 The resulting assembly file will appear in `app/target/scala-2.13/` directory.
 
+#### 3.2 Run the released jar
+
+Download the lastest jar in our [release page](https://github.com/alephium/explorer-backend/releases/latest)
+
+Run it with:
+
+```shell
+java -jar explorer-backend-x.x.x.jar
+```
+
+### 4. Configuration
+
+Configuration file at [`/app/src/main/resources/application.conf`](https://github.com/alephium/explorer-backend/blob/master/app/src/main/resources/application.conf) can be customized using environment variables
+
+Everything can be overridden in two ways:
+
+#### `user.conf` file
+
+You can change the config in the `~/.alephium-explorer-backend/user.conf` file. e.g:
+
+```conf
+alephium {
+  explorer {
+      port = 9191 //Change default 9090 port
+  }
+}
+```
+
+#### Environment variables
+
+Every value has a corresponding environment variable, you can find all of them in the [application.conf](https://github.com/alephium/explorer-backend/blob/master/app/src/main/resources/application.conf).  e.g:
+
+```shell
+export EXPLORER_PORT=9191
+```
 
 ### 5. Restore archived database
 
 Syncing all data from scratch can take a while, you can choose to start from a snapshot instead.
-Snapshots are available at https://archives.alephium.org/
-Download the `explore-db` dump you want and simply run:
+
+Alephium [archives repository](https://archives.alephium.org) contains the snapshots for explorer backend database.
+The snapshot can be loaded in the postgresql database of the explorer-backend at the first run, using the command below.
+
+* Make sure to use the network you want to load the snapshot for, and the correct database name and user.
+* The database must be created before running the command and must be empty.
 
 ```shell
-psql database_name < dump_file
+alephium_network=mainnet
+pg_user=postgres
+database=explorer
+curl -L $(curl -L -s https://archives.alephium.org/archives/${alephium_network}/explorer-db/_latest.txt) | gunzip -c | psql -U $pg_user -d $database
 ```
 
-Please note that `database_name` must have been created before, see point 2 on how to do it.
-
 ### Querying hashes
 
 Hash strings are stored as [bytea][bytea]. To query a hash string in
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     )
   )
 ```
-
-## Node Customization
-
-The steps below are for developers who want to reference a full node on another computer, such as a Raspberry Pi, that is on the same subnet.
-
-### Explorer: `/app/src/main/resources/application.conf`
-
-```shell
-blockflow {
-    host = "full-node-ip-address"
-    port = 12973
-
-    direct-clique-access = false
-    direct-clique-access = ${?BLOCKFLOW_DIRECT_CLIQUE_ACCESS}
-
-    network-id = 0
-    network-id = ${?BLOCKFLOW_NETWORK_ID}
-    groupNum = 4
-    api-key = "full-node-api-key"
-}
-```
-
-### Full Node: `user.conf`
-
-```shell
-alephium.api.api-key = "full-node-api-key"
-alephium.api.network-interface = "0.0.0.0"
-
-alephium.network.bind-address  = "0.0.0.0:9973"
-alephium.network.internal-address  = "full-node-ip-address:9973"
-alephium.network.coordinator-address  = "full-node-ip-address:9973"
-```
-
-
-