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🧑🏼‍🚀🖖🏼 Greetings from the multichainverse! This week we explore some exciting recent updates including: * 1️⃣ Blockscout's new multichain explorer * 2️⃣ Refinements in the backend release v8.1 and upcoming frontend release v2.1 * 3️⃣ Ongoing collaborations and news from Soneium, Giveth, and Quicknode * 4️⃣ Mark your 📅 for ETHCC in

Learnings from ETHGlobal Prague

Learnings from ETHGlobal Prague

Discover how top projects at ETHGlobal Prague used Blockscout to power their builds. Featuring interviews with hackathon prize winners, developer feedback, and usage stats from over 80 teams.

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Decrypt: Pectra's Ethereum impact

Ethereum's Pectra upgrade has dramatically reduced transaction costs on the network. The most significant change involves "blobs" - data storage units that help layer-2 networks operate more efficiently. In the Decrypt article "How Ethereum Is Faring Since Its Major Pectra Upgrade" Ulyana Skladchikova, head

How to Submit Pull Requests to Update links to Blockscout

How to Submit Pull Requests to Update links to Blockscout

This guide shows how to find and replace Etherscan links with Blockscout in open-source repos. Includes step-by-step GitHub pull request instructions, example commands, and proper domain mapping for Ethereum, Gnosis, Optimism, and more.

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One Search Bar for Every Chain: The Multichain Block Explorer

Discover the new Blockscout Multichain Explorer, a single search bar to explore tokens, wallets, contracts, and dapps across the entire EVM ecosystem.

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Hacking IRL

We're headed to Prague this weekend for our first official in-person hackathon of 2025! With new features including Autoscout, Merit Integrations and the Blockscout SDK, along with $20,000 in bounties, there is something for every developer to buidl with. If you're in town, please swing

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The Celestia Superhighway: Supporting High Data Availability on Blockscout

Celestia is addressing the data availability problem head-on. Their DA layer is equipped to handle the massive data growth coming from new rollups and increased rollup usage. With the new Blockscout integration, data on Celestia and Celenium is easier than ever to find and explore.

Exploring Pectra: How Blockscout is integrating EIP-7702

Blockscout support for the Pectra hardfork and EIP-7702 is made possible by a grant from the Ethereum Foundation (EF), ensuring vital Ethereum infrastructure and tooling is resourced and ready ahead of key protocol upgrades.

Changing Wallet Block Explorer URLs to Blockscout

Changing Wallet Block Explorer URLs to Blockscout

Blockscout is a leading open-source block explorer that offers practical tools for developers and project teams. These include a developer-friendly API that does not require mandatory keys for standard calls, its customizable interface, advanced onchain analytics capabilities, and a community-driven development approach that enriches user interactions and ensures continuous improvement

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How to Deploy a Rollup Explorer with Autoscout

Step-by-step guide on how to deploy a Block Explorer for Rollups like OP Stack, Arbitrum, or zkEVM using Autoscout, the self-service launchpad for L2 developers and Rollup-as-a-Service teams.

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Rewarding Blockchain Activity

A day in the life of a blockchain power user... coffee, blockchain, brush teeth, blockchain, shower, blockchain, lunch, energy drink, blockchain, dinner, blockchain, bed (not necessarily in this order). For many of us blockchain is already a vital daily routine. Maybe it's checking charts, swapping tokens, trading, farming

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How to use Advanced Filters on Blockscout

Blockscout has Released Advanced Filters, Providing more detailed and customizable options for data filtering.

Earn Rewards for Your Daily Block Explorer Routine with the Activity Pass

Earn Rewards for Your Daily Block Explorer Routine with the Activity Pass

The best rewards are the ones you earn just by doing what you already do. That’s exactly what the new Blockscout Activity Pass is all about. If you regularly check transactions, explore addresses, interact with contracts, or use tools like Swapscout or Revokescout, you’re already doing the work.

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One Click Explorer

Block explorers have never been easy to launch and maintain. Most are closed source, expensive and centralized. The few that are available as open-source software (like Blockscout) contain complex multi-faceted code that can be difficult to update and resource intensive to run. But what if it wasn't so

Mainstream Mode: Loading Merits on Soneium

Mainstream Mode: Loading Merits on Soneium

Join the Soneium Mainstream Mode campaign to complete onchain quests, earn Merits, and mint the exclusive "Selected First Player" NFT badge. Live May 1–30, 2025.

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Vibe Coding with Blockscout

Vibecoding, a term introduced by computer scientist Andrej Karpathy, represents a revolutionary approach to programming that harnesses the capabilities of advanced large language models. Vibecoding is gaining popularity in online communities, especially among developers who enjoy sharing their coding sessions. It's not about following any rules but having

Visual representation of UserOperation transaction details including hash, sender, status, timestamp, and fee, as seen on a crypto wallet explorer.

UserOperation: The transaction object enabling Account Abstraction

Learn about the transaction object that facilitates Account Abstraction and how to locate it on the Blockscout Explorer.

How to Create a Block Explorer in 5 Minutes with Autoscout

Create a block explorer for your EVM chain in minutes with Autoscout, the self-service tool from Blockscout. Supports OP Stack, Arbitrum Nitro, testnets, and more.

From Days to Minutes: How Gas.zip Uses Autoscout to Stay Ahead in the Multichain Race

The Business Problem Tom Kysar runs Gas.zip, a service that helps users move cryptocurrency across more than 350 different blockchains. Their competitive advantage is simple: be first to support new chains. "We've built Gas.zip around being very quick when new chains launch," explains Tom.

Rules of the Roadmap

Rules of the Roadmap

🚙 With Q1 in the rearview mirror we've started taking on the Q2+ Blockscout roadmap. This week we look ahead to some upcoming features along with news updates, public goods, and Merits. This newsletter is brought to you by Matchain: the blockchain built for billions—powering seamless Web3 experiences

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How to Simplify Crypto Taxes with Blockscout

Filing taxes can be a hassle, especially if you're into trading and holding cryptocurrencies. Keeping track of all those transactions across different networks can get messy. But don’t worry! Blockscout makes it super easy to access your blockchain data and lets you export your transaction history, which

Deploy and Verify Your Contract Using Remix and Blockscout

Remix is a robust browser-based integrated development environment (IDE) that facilitates the development, compilation, and deployment of smart contracts. Its user-friendly interface makes it an ideal choice for both novice and experienced developers. Blockscout has been integrated into the Remix IDE, enabling users to verify their contracts directly within the

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Blockscout Stats: Analyze Data from your Favourite Chains

The blockchain ecosystem relies on transparency and real-time access to data, which allows builders, data analysts, and researchers to interpret information from blockchain networks. Blockscout is at the forefront of this movement, providing users with an interface to view and analyze blockchain data effectively. Blockscout stats (statistics) offer comprehensive access

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Ghibli-pilled & Giveth-thrilled

This week we celebrate the 🚀 Ghibli trajectory and our recent Giveth campaign success, along with new features and Blockscout content, chains, partners and Merits. This newsletter edition is sponsored by BOB: Learn essential Bitcoin DeFi security practices while earning an exclusive NFT badge. Your mission: deposit into BOB vaults and

Blockscout REST API

Blockscout REST API: New key endpoints and their usage

Blockscout 7.0 introduces a variety of new features and improvements. This guide examines some of the latest API endpoints and provides clear instructions on how to maximize their use.