Blockchain 101

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.

In the Media

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

News

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

Insights

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.

Insights

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

Product Pulse

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.

Product Pulse

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.

In the Media

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.

News

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.

In the Media

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.

Insights

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

In the Media

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.

News Featured

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

Product Pulse

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.

In the Media

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.

News

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-

Insights

How to Migrate Your Etherscan API Calls to Blockscout

Looking for an Etherscan API alternative? Learn how to migrate to Blockscout PRO API with minimal code changes and full endpoint compatibility.

Product Pulse

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.

In the Media

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.

In the Media

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.

Product Pulse

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.

Insights

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

News

The ARC of Innovation

🎉 This past month Blockscout debuted the official explorer for Circle's new public Layer-1 blockchain, ARC. The ARC testnet launched at the end of October and we've been working closely with the Circle team on customizations including fee breakdowns on the interface, backend notifications, and transaction

AI

MCP Explained Part 9: Preliminary Conclusions

The final part of the MCP Explained Series reflects on lessons from real LLM tests with the Blockscout MCP server, highlighting limits in reasoning, math reliability, and UI challenges that shape future improvements.

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Magic Money Machine

Turn $1 into $100+ for Open-Source Projects ✨ Your small donation can have massive impact during Gitcoin's GG24 round! Thanks to Quadratic Funding, a $1 donation to your favorite project can be matched at roughly 100X from a generous sponsor pool. The secret? QF rewards projects with broad