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A collection of 27 posts

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How HypurrClaw Built an AI Crypto Trading Agent with the Blockscout API

HypurrClaw uses the Blockscout API as its EVM intelligence layer for wallet forensics, decoded transactions, and pre-trade contract checks across Base, Ethereum, Arbitrum, and more.

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Switch to the Blockscout Pro API

Free blockchain API for switching from Etherscan or Routescan to Blockscout Pro API with one endpoint, 120 plus chains and REST data.

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Blockscout in the Lab: How Researchers and Universities Build on the Explorer

Blockchain is reshaping how people store, share, and verify information, and the use cases now reach well beyond finance. Some of the most interesting work is happening inside universities, where researchers and students are testing what public ledgers can do for everything from academic credentials to systemic risk analysis. A

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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

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What Is Wallet-as-a-Service (WaaS)? Simplifying Web3 with an Ecosystem Approach

Blockscout Wallet-as-a-Service (WaaS) gives new and growing EVM ecosystems a fast way to launch a branded, self-custodial wallet with Account Abstraction support. Combine WaaS with Explorer-as-a-Service for a seamless onchain experience across explorers, portals, and dapps.

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Crypto Ad Networks: How to Reach Web3 Audiences

Learn how to reach Web3 users with crypto-native advertising networks. Compare platforms like Blockscout, Slise, Specify, and Coinzilla, and discover how onchain ad placements connect you directly to active blockchain audiences.

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Ethereum Staking After Pectra: Understanding Execution Layer Deposits and Withdrawals

Intro It’s been nearly 5 years since the first Beacon chain block, and in that time Ethereum has completely transitioned from Proof of Work (PoW) to Proof of Stake (PoS) consensus. The transition has been incremental, with various upgrades enabling staking functionality, instantiating validator withdrawals, and much more.  The

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A Conversation with Eva Zhang: Blockscout’s New CEO

Q&A with newly appointed Blockscout CEO Eva Zhang, covering her journey and what's next for the industry's most used evm block explorer.

Blockscout and Wallets: A Guide to Secure Blockchain Interactions

Explore what makes a secure crypto wallet. Learn how Blockscout guides safer blockchain interactions by addressing blind signing, self-custody, and account abstraction.

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Explorer-as-a-Service (EAAS): Enterprise-Grade EVM Block Explorers

Our Explorer-as-a-Service (EAAS) delivers a fully managed, enterprise-ready blockchain explorer for EVM networks. Get custom branding, smart contract verification, advanced APIs, and SLA-backed reliability without the burden of self-hosting.

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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

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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.

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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.

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Bloctopus + Blockscout: Lighting Up Every Devnet

A Conversation with Anisha Goel, Co-founder of Bloctopus

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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Blockscout - Rootstock Case Study

Leveraging Blockscout for enhanced security, scalability, and transparency in Rootstock's unique Bitcoin powered ecosystem.

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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

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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