A New CEO
Blockscout is taking a BIG step forward today 🧑🏼🚀 with the announcement of our new CEO Eva Zhang 🎉🎉
Eva brings a fresh perspective to the team with specializations in fintech, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. As former CEO of Alipay UK, serving millions of users across Europe, Eva understands scaling financial infrastructure at the enterprise level. Under Eva's leadership, Blockscout will accelerate adoption among financial institutions and networks seeking trusted, scalable blockchain data solutions.
It's an exciting time to be a Blockscouter! We've been working with Eva this past month to focus our priorities, improve our services for current chains, and home in on new strategic partnerships and product opportunities.
Eva joins us as demand for blockchain transparency reaches new heights. We're building infrastructure that will define how the world interacts with on-chain data. We appreciate your continued support of Blockscout as we write the next chapter in blockchain exploration!
🗞️ Blockscout News in Brief
- 1️⃣ New Blockscout FE and BE versions released
- 2️⃣ Flashblocks debut on the OP testnet
- 3️⃣ ZetaChain CCTX
- 4️⃣ Connecting AI to blockchain data with Blockscout MCP
- 5️⃣ Our Touching Grass campaign is live on Giveth
1️⃣ Latest Blockscout Versions Released
We 🚢 Just Keep Shipping 🚢 with new backend and frontend releases designed to optimize operations and introduce new data points.
- Backend v9.1.0: Includes support for Beacon chain deposits on Ethereum, improved proxy address reporting, API updates and more.
- Frontend v2.3.0: Adds GEAS contract readability, an API for dapp ratings and UI support for flashblocks.
2️⃣ Flashblocks Debut on Optimism Sepolia
OP Sepolia has integrated Flashblocks, built by the Flashbots team, which reduce effective block times from 2 seconds to 250 milliseconds!
Flashblocks are available on the Sepolia testnet for integration testing and available via existing RPC providers like Alchemy, Ankr and QuickNode.
Blockscout is the only explorer that has added Flashblocks support. This feature displays each block as it arrives, but good luck clicking on a block before the next one comes! To explore individual blocks with ease, mouse over any block to toggle off the real-time feed.
3️⃣ ZetaChain CCTX Support
We've been working closely with ZetaChain to provide cross-chain transaction (CCTX) data and tracking in their Blockscout explorer. CCTXs can originate/arrive on many different chains including L2s like Base and Optimism and non-EVMs like Solana and Bitcoin.
The latest ZetaChain block explorer provides a CCTX list which shows the origin and destination chain, as well as dedicated transaction pages detailing the full CCTX lifecycle.
Explore ZetaChain's unique approach to interoperability and how Blockscout supports it in our latest blog post.
Joe C.
4️⃣ MCP: Connecting AI to Blockchain
The Model Context Protocol is a standardized communication framework that connects AI to external data sources. The Blockscout MCP is designed specifically for blockchain data interaction, returning data to AI agents and LLMs in a structured, easy-to-digest format.
Blockscout MCP is simple to setup and begin using immediately with AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude. Learn how in the article below👇🏻
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5️⃣ Giveth Campaign
Our Touching Grass campaign is currently live on Giveth! Giveth is a community-driven donation platform which makes giving with crypto easy and fun. They support a wide range of causes and projects that help make the world a better place.
The Blockscout Touching Grass campaign focuses on organizations that are involved in ecosystem restoration, carbon renewal, and environmental stewardship. We value exploring the blockchain and exploring IRL, and are promoting projects that allow us to explore green spaces, reset our minds, and offset our energy use.
- Support public goods projects that make the world better
- Many chains and cryptos supported, donate any amount with ease
- Donations are amplified via a 40K matching pool
- Deadline to donate is 24 September
- Check us out on the Giveth X spaces on September 22 11am ET / 5pm CEST to learn more about the causes we support.
The Blockscout newsletter goes out to all MyAccount community users on supported chains. We welcome your feedback on topics you'd like to see covered or any questions you have. Visit us on X or Discord to get your explorer questions answered or get your project added to our growing network list.
