___  _   _  ___   _       ___   _   _ _____  _   _  _____ 
 / _ \| | | |/ _ \ | |     / _ \ | \ | /  __ \| | | ||  ___|
/ /_\ \ | | / /_\ \| |    / /_\ \|  \| | /  \/| |_| || |__  
|  _  | | | |  _  || |    |  _  || . ` | |    |  _  ||  __| 
| | | \ \_/ / | | || |____| | | || |\  | \__/\| | | || |___ 
\_| |_/\___/\_| |_/\_____/\_| |_/\_| \_/\____/\_| |_/\____/ 

[ tracking every AVAX the C-Chain burns, block by block ]

▓▒░ 0x00 // SITREP ░▒▓

Avalanche's C-Chain burns AVAX on every transaction (EIP-1559-style base fee burn). This tracker polls the public C-Chain RPC for the latest block, computes the AVAX burned in it, and persists every block it sees to MongoDB so the running total survives restarts — served through a small Express + EJS front end.

▓▒░ 0x01 // DATA FLOW ░▒▓

 https://api.avax.network/ext/bc/C/rpc
                 │
                 │  web3.eth.getBlock("latest")   (every 2s)
                 ▼
     ┌───────────────────────┐
     │  blockController.js   │ ── hash, blockNumber, gasUsed
     └───────────┬───────────┘
                 │  feesCalculator(gasUsed)
                 │  burnedAvax = gasUsed × 470 gwei × 1e-12
                 ▼
     ┌───────────────────────┐        every 5s        ┌─────────────────┐
     │   MongoDB: Blocks     │ ──────────────────────▶│  countFees()    │
     └───────────┬───────────┘                         │  running total  │
                 │                                      └─────────────────┘
                 ▼
        GET /  →  views/index.ejs   (blocks + total burned)
        GET /about → views/about.ejs

▓▒░ 0x02 // LOADOUT ░▒▓

dependency	role
express	HTTP server + routing
ejs	server-rendered views (index, about)
mongodb	persists every polled block in a Blocks collection
web3	talks to the Avalanche C-Chain JSON-RPC endpoint
nodemon (dev)	autoreload during development

You'll also need a MongoDB connection URI configured in server/database/db_connector.js — cloud-hosted (e.g. Atlas) or a local instance both work.

▓▒░ 0x03 // RUN IT ░▒▓

root@node:~/AvalancheTracker# npm install
root@node:~/AvalancheTracker# npx nodemon server.js
Successfully connected to server.
Server is running.

Then open http://localhost:3000 — the block feed starts polling immediately, and the running burned-AVAX total updates on its own 5-second cycle.

.: . . : <[ every burned block, logged ]> : . : .