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What Is a Block Explorer and Why It Matters

Learn what a block explorer is, how it works, and why it matters. Understand the difference between wallets and explorers and how to verify onchain activity.

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Rootstock Global Wallet: Phase 1 Now Live

Blockscout delivers Phase 1 of the Rootstock Global Wallet, including a standalone wallet, fiat on-ramping, and a white-labeled SDK for dapp integration.

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Complete Portfolio Analysis in One Click, Powered by Octav

Explore onchain portfolios directly in Blockscout with Octav. View wallet and DeFi positions, historical data, and customizable dashboards for deeper portfolio insights.

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Confessions of a Block Explorer: What Really Happens Inside a Transaction

Learn how to read a blockchain transaction step by step on a block explorer. Understand transfers, NFT mints, swaps, bridges, gas fees, and contract interactions.

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Decrypt: Ethereum Sets Record Usage

Insights provided to Decrypt in response to Ethereum record usage as costs fall, and Vitalik Buterin warning that Ethereum has accumulated protocol bloat

New Year, New Features

New Year, New Features

Explore what’s coming to Blockscout in 2026, along a roundup of updates including recognition in Animoca’s Digital Assets Outlook, inclusion in Claude’s connector directory, new Merits campaigns

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How To Not Lose $50 Million: Address Poisoning Antidotes

Learn how address poisoning scams work and why users fall for them. Discover how block explorers like Blockscout help detect lookalike addresses and prevent costly mistakes.

Your Essential Block Explorer Glossary: 50+ Blockchain Terms Explained

Your Essential Block Explorer Glossary: 50+ Blockchain Terms Explained

Diving into blockchain can feel like learning a new language. One minute you're exploring a transaction, the next you're staring at terms like "nonce," "wei," and "mempool" wondering what they all mean. Don't worry, we've all

Multichain portfolio integrations with Zerion and Zapper

Multichain portfolio integrations with Zerion and Zapper

Manage multichain DeFi portfolios directly from Blockscout. Learn how to access Zerion and Zapper from wallet address pages to track assets across blockchains.

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Ship Faster with Autoscout: Deploy a Block Explorer with Status, Logs, and Advanced Features

Deploy a production-ready block explorer faster with Autoscout. Learn how to launch, monitor status, inspect logs, and customize advanced features for EVM chains.

Decrypt: Ethereum Raises Data Capacity in Latest Scaling Tweak

Decrypt: Ethereum Raises Data Capacity in Latest Scaling Tweak

The BPO2 fork marks Ethereum’s shift to parametric scalability, expanding blob capacity and stabilizing rollup fees. As Layer 2 ecosystems mature, Ethereum’s modular design enables linear, vertical, and horizontal growth across layers and data availability networks.

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Scouting 2025: Dispatch from the Onchain Front

A 2025 year in review from Blockscout on block explorers, multichain infrastructure, onchain data, developer tools, and ecosystem adoption.

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Milkroad: Blockscout Top Pick as Best Block Explorer-as-a-Service Provider

Launch a custom block explorer in minutes. Discover why Blockscout and Autoscout are the top block explorer–as-a-service choice for scaling blockchain teams.

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A Deep Dive into Smart Contract Exploration

Explore how to analyze smart contracts across Ethereum and Layer 2s. Learn deployment types, proxy patterns, factory contracts, and how Blockscout reveals onchain behavior and origins

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Blockchain Reporter: Eva Zhang on AI & Onchain Data for Institutions

A conversation with Blockscout CEO Eva Zhang on how AI, open-source explorers, and institutional-grade data infrastructure are making public blockchain data auditable, actionable, and ready for regulated financial services.

APIs shouldn't break overnight

APIs shouldn't break overnight

Unfortunately it happened last week when Etherscan suddenly removed free-tier API coverage for ~10% of chains they support. Many applications rely on these APIs to serve data to their users, and their removal without advanced warning left a lot of people and projects scrambling. This incident also highlighted the centralization

Blockscout GraphQL API

Blockscout GraphQL API

Explore the Blockscout GraphQL API to query blockchain data efficiently. Learn how to access endpoints, run nested queries, and integrate flexible data fetching into your applications.

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Decrypt: Fusaka Upgrade

Ethereum's Fusaka activation finally aligns its base layer with the scale of activity already happening across its L2 ecosystem, Blockscout told Decrypt.

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Privacy, Institutions and Real-World Adoption: Exploring Devconnect in Buenos Aires

Paying for a coffee or a dinner or splitting a bill with friends is usually a pain with crypto. Payments don't go through, or they take forever, or it's hard to tell, or just a few shops accept it. But at Devconnect in Buenos Aires, real-world

How to Migrate Your Etherscan API Calls to Blockscout

How to Migrate Your Etherscan API Calls to Blockscout

If your app uses Etherscan-style endpoints, switching to Blockscout is simple. Most calls are fully compatible, and in many cases the only change you’ll need is the base URL. This guide walks through the process step-by-step so you can migrate in minutes.

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Exploring Celo’s Ethereum Layer 2 Architecture with Blockscout

Explore Celo’s Ethereum L2 design with Blockscout. View epochs, bridging, dispute games, account data, gas payments, and top dapps directly onchain.

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Cryptorank: Understanding Markets Through Verifiable Data

Cryptorank guide covering Blockscout. Beyond standard explorer functions, Blockscout offers user-centric features that deepen insight. Blockscout integrates a suite of built-in services that pull Web3 tools directly into the explorer interface.

Coindesk: Onchain data suggest no alt season just yet

Coindesk: Onchain data suggest no alt season just yet

Amidst Bitcoin’s drawdown, onchain activity in the Ethereum ecosystem points to a market clearing excess leverage rather than shifting into altcoin season.

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Essential Dapps: Multisend Streamlines Batch Transactions on EVM Blockchains

Streamline batch transactions on EVM blockchains with Blockscout’s Multisend. Send tokens or ETH to multiple addresses in one optimized call to reducine gas costs.

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Blockscout Gas Tracker

Understand how gas fees work across Ethereum and L2 chains with the Blockscout Gas Tracker. Explore gas prices, limits, EIP-1559 fees, and real-time network load