News: Exploring Arc
Arc mainnet is live, and Blockscout is its official block explorer, powering the chain from day one. Arc is Circle's open, EVM-compatible Layer-1 built for the world's financial markets, with real-time money movement, agentic optimizations, and USDC for gas.
Blockscout provides the full transparency layer where you can live-track transactions, addresses, contracts, and gas at explorer.arc.io.
What's ready today:
- Explorer UI: live block streaming, verified contract source, decoded transactions and logs, and universal search, all on Arc mainnet and testnet.
- Advanced Stats: the stats page shows details across selectable time periods. View new accounts, transaction trends, and contract deployments as the chain grows.
- Pro API on Arc: the same API key, base URL, and endpoints across 100+ chains now cover Arc too. Chain ID
5042for mainnet,5042002for testnet. Our Pro API includes WebSocket functionality, additional data via microservices, and more. Get your free Pro API key here.
If you're interested in building on Arc, they are offering several grants for ecosystem builders including small grants for nimble projects and big grants for major deployments. Our Arc build guide👇🏻 gets you started right away.
Andrew G
🗞️ Blockscout News in Brief
- Blockscout's Pro API is serving up blockchain data to everyday developers
- Token verification is in demand as more launchpads launch
- New dev guide: Build a Real-Time Whale-Watching Alert Bot using Pro API WebSockets
🌱 Pro API usage grows across chain environments
This chart shows the number of users hitting our APIs daily over the past month. Multichain Pro API usage has accelerated with the launch of Robinhood Chain, and we're also seeing increased usage on Ethereum, Base, and now Arc.
Our Pro API gives you higher call limits and RPS, and can be tuned to receive selected data from 100+ chains. The new WebSockets feature lets you pull data only when you need it, further optimizing your credit usage.
🔥 Token verification integrated into select launchpads
Meme coin launches have picked up again this month, and launchpads give anyone the ability to quickly launch a token. Token verification during launch provides validated information for the explorer, which in turn helps buyers, sellers, and traders make better-informed decisions.
Verification confirms a token's official identity and metadata (name, website, logo, description, email, socials). It also ensures the token appears properly in search results and helps users distinguish real assets from copycat or fraudulent spam tokens.
Launchpads like Radardex and Archemist have integrated Blockscout verification directly as part of the launch process. Fill out a simple form and pay for the service, and Blockscout handles verification automatically.
Direct token verification via the Blockscout UI
If you've already launched a token another way, or via a platform without auto-verification, you can verify through the Blockscout UI. Follow our guide to add your details, it's free, though there's a long backlog, so you may want to look at expedited verification. -> Manual token info verification.
Expedited verification
Due to a sharp rise in meme token launches, we're seeing a high volume of requests to verify new tokens. We're processing these as we can, but the backlog is real. We've created an expedited process for token owners who want to pay for fast manual verification. -> Expedited Token info submission.
🐳 Build a whale-watching alert bot
Tracking large wallets and getting notified the moment they move is common in crypto, but it's usually built on slow, wasteful polling. Blockscout's Pro API now offers a multiplexed WebSocket connection instead: subscribe once to an address, and get pushed a JSON event the instant it moves, across native transfers and ERC-20, ERC-721, and ERC-1155 tokens.
A single connection supports up to 100 subscriptions, so tracking one whale or a hundred is a simple process. The full setup, including a working Discord webhook relay, takes under an hour.
Andrew G
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