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
We've spent the first half of January zeroing in on some exciting new roadmap items! As we expand our offerings to support upcoming high-TPS chains, payment-focused chains, and private-chain infrastructure, we maintain our mandate to provide a best-in-class explorer experience for all users.
In 2026 look for new explorer features like a super-charged PRO API, a Universal Bridge Indexer that brings radical transparency to cross-chain transactions, Autoscout plugins for advanced self-deployment, Blockscout privacy mode, and more.
We'll be updating our roadmap details in the coming weeks to include these features and lay out our Q-by-Q game plan. These improvements hit on many different aspects of the explorer, led by specific custom features for our hosted chains.
As always, if you have specific features in mind, create an issue in our Github repo or talk with developers directly in our Discord channel.
🗞️ Blockscout News in Brief
- Featured in Animoca's Digital Assets Outlook 2026
- Selected as the Milk Road Pick for best blockchain explorer
- Blockscout MCP added to Anthropic's curated connector directory
- Blogs: Read up on Address Poisoning, Blockchain Glossary, & Advanced Autoscout.
🩵 Animoca Feature
Blockscout's CEO Eva Zhang was featured in Animoca's comprehensive Digital Assets Outlook 2026 which highlights the latest trends and predictions for fintech and onchain industries. Eva explained the shift towards institution-backed chains and what this trend means for infrastructure providers such as explorers and wallets.
"For the next generation of chains, privacy and compliance are no longer add-ons but are integrated into the core architecture from Day One."
-Eva Zhang, CEO, Blockscout
🥛Blockscout is Milk Road's Pick
This article in Milk Road covers why projects need an explorer and feature sets offered by different explorer environments. According to the authors, Blockscout is best for: Control, customizability, and the ability to scale with your ecosystem.
- Launch your explorer in ~5 minutes
- Open source
- Highly flexible
- Already used by over 3,000 chains
This table in the long-form article compares and contrasts features for popular explorers.
🤖 Blockscout MCP
The Blockscout MCP is gaining traction as a go-to resource for blockchain data. Anthropic (the team behind the Claude AI model) recently added the MCP to their connector directory. With this integration enabled you can connect the MCP directly to Claude and access deep blockchain data analysis. Blockscout xRay is also available for chatGPT, providing the ability to investigate on-chain activity on various EVM chains.
✍🏼 Blog Posts
This week we showed you how to stay secure in the face of common address poisoning attacks, provided a beginner's glossary of blockchain terms, and dove into advanced features available for Autoscout power users.
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⚜️ Merits Updates
Merits distribution wrapped up for our Hello Celo with ZNS Connect and 2025 Badgeholder campaigns in early January.
New campaigns with Infinity Names and Superboard are ongoing, check them out to grab discounts and enter a cash prize raffle to reward your exploration!
- Infinity Names: Get your discounted .blue name before Jan 26 and we’ll add 300 Merits to your account!
- Superboard: Explore and loop Blockscout Essential Dapps with Superboard to enter the cash prize raffle.
The Blockscout newsletter goes out to 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.
