Insights Verifying Ethereum Predeploy Contracts Contract verification is a vital service block explorers provide to blockchains. Through the verification process, the underlying code becomes human-readable, enabling anyone to check contract code and interact with the read and write methods within the contract. Typically, smart contracts are deployed to a blockchain by an external user at
Insights Analytics and statistics overview of popular blockchains Compare leading blockchains through onchain stats. This Blockscout-powered guide highlights real metrics across Ethereum, Base, Optimism, Ink, Soneium, Unichain and more.
Insights How to get cross-chain gas tokens with Gas.zip A step-by-step guide to using Gas.zip for cross-chain gas. Learn how to bridge native tokens to 350+ chains in one transaction: fast, simple, and efficient.
Insights Bloctopus + Blockscout: Lighting Up Every Devnet A Conversation with Anisha Goel, Co-founder of Bloctopus
Insights Learnings from ETHGlobal Prague Discover how top projects at ETHGlobal Prague used Blockscout to power their builds. Featuring interviews with hackathon prize winners, developer feedback, and usage stats from over 80 teams.
Insights The Celestia Superhighway: Supporting High Data Availability on Blockscout Celestia is addressing the data availability problem head-on. Their DA layer is equipped to handle the massive data growth coming from new rollups and increased rollup usage. With the new Blockscout integration, data on Celestia and Celenium is easier than ever to find and explore.
Insights Exploring Pectra: How Blockscout is integrating EIP-7702 Blockscout support for the Pectra hardfork and EIP-7702 is made possible by a grant from the Ethereum Foundation (EF), ensuring vital Ethereum infrastructure and tooling is resourced and ready ahead of key protocol upgrades.
Insights Bridging the Divide: How L2 Networks Are Forming Clusters Ahead of Ethereum's Pectra Upgrade As Ethereum's Pectra upgrade approaches, our latest research at Blockscout reveals that Layer 2 networks are coalescing around dominant tech stacks rather than working toward universal standards. In a recent interview with Decrypt, we shared how a shift toward technical "clustering" is happening, despite overall transaction
Insights Blockscout - Rootstock Case Study Leveraging Blockscout for enhanced security, scalability, and transparency in Rootstock's unique Bitcoin powered ecosystem.
Insights The Need for Speed: Preparing Blockscout for Solana Support The quest for higher speeds and lower transaction fees has driven blockchain development in recent years. No chain has accomplished more in this realm than Solana. With an average block time of 400 ms and the potential for 65,000 transactions per second (TPS), Solana has seen rapid and widespread
Insights The Legend of the Blockscout Capybara Speaking of capybaras, did you know that: * Capybaras are native only to South America. * They can hold their breath underwater for up to 5 minutes. * Other animals often use them as living chairs. * The Catholic Church once classified them as fish for Lent. * They have at last found true fame
Insights Striking a Balance as Vitalik Calls for Ethereum Alignment Since it began, Ethereum has grown into a vast ecosystem, with thousands of decentralized applications and hundreds of Layer 2 networks. This growth shows Ethereum's success but also brings new challenges. The main question is: How can such a diverse ecosystem stay united without losing what makes each
Insights ETHGlobal Bangkok 2024: Hackathon Playbook We're excited to announce that Blockscout will be participating in the upcoming ETHGlobal Bangkok Hackathon! This event presents a great opportunity for developers to showcase their skills and potentially win a share of our $20,000 prize pool. The prize pool is open to all qualified projects that