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Supporting Developer Access

Supporting Developer Access

On July 1, 2026, Etherscan is cutting their free API capacity. Max records per request drop from 10,000 to 1,000, and the Internal Transactions by Block Range endpoint is being removed from the free plan entirely. Etherscan Changelog. Reductions are happening across the industry as teams adjust to

The Blockchain AI Frontier

The Blockchain AI Frontier

AI agents are quickly becoming serious blockchain users. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong recently posted on X: "Very soon there are going to be more AI agents than humans making transactions." At Blockscout, we think agents will also pull blockchain data at scale to generate real insights for projects

Building the L2 Transparency Layer

Building the L2 Transparency Layer

The L2 landscape has never been bigger...or messier. L2Beat currently tracks 149 scaling projects. The Ethereum Foundation just published a major update to the L1↔L2 relationship model, envisioning the role of L2s as chains designed to extend Ethereum's core properties, delivering new features and customized blockchain

Multichain block explorer travel guide

Multichain Travel Guide

Explore multiple EVM chains in one place with a multichain block explorer. Track wallets, tokens, NFTs, and cross-chain activity with a unified view of your onchain journey.

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Going PRO

We asked developers across blockchain ecosystems one question: "What's the #1 thing that would improve your development process?" The answer was unanimous: better APIs. APIs with more reliability, more RPS, more chains, more value. Devs wanted more - so we built the Blockscout PRO API. It&

Updates from the Edge

Updates from the Edge

From an AI-powered Vitalik bot to onchain agents in production, ETHDenver 2026 showed Ethereum operating at the edge of innovation.

Peeling the Onion

Peeling the Onion

Our onchain actions are often revealed in layers. Anonymous addresses provide a basic level of privacy, but owners can be discovered through transactional association or other contextual clues. Contracts are compiled into bytecode, which is hard for humans to decipher at the machine level but fully transparent once a contract

Requested Features ✅

Requested Features ✅

Our latest frontend release includes features requested by our developer community. As a public good, Blockscout prioritizes customizations that make your onchain exploration more productive, easy, and engaging

New Year, New Features

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

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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.

APIs shouldn't break overnight

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 centralization

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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-world

The ARC of Innovation

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 summaries

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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 community

Alibaba Cloud x Blockscout

This week was an exciting one for Blockscout! 🎉 Our CEO Eva Zhang joined Alibaba Cloud for a Memorandum of Understanding Signing Ceremony on September 25, a significant step forward that opens new doors for our blockchain explorer products and services across Asia. Read the full press release about our collaboration

Alibaba Cloud and Blockscout Announce Strategic Alliance to Power the AI-Driven Future of Blockchain Intelligence

Alibaba Cloud and Blockscout Announce Strategic Alliance to Power the AI-Driven Future of Blockchain Intelligence

Alibaba Cloud and Blockscout collaborate to advance AI access to blockchain data, exploring new ways for artificial intelligence to interact with onchain data.

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A New CEO

Blockscout is taking a BIG step forward today 🧑🏼‍🚀 with the announcement of our new CEO Eva Zhang 🎉🎉 Eva brings a fresh perspective to the team with specializations in fintech, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. As former CEO of Alipay UK, serving millions of users across Europe, Eva understands scaling financial

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Blockscout Appoints Eva Zhang, Former Alipay UK CEO, as Chief Executive Officer

Eva Zhang, former Alipay UK CEO and fintech leader, joins Blockscout as CEO to drive enterprise adoption and AI-powered growth across the multichain EVM ecosystem.

Blockscout newsletter August 2025

3000 Chains

Did you know that Blockscout open-source explorer is used by more than 3000 blockchains! This ecosystem-wide support gives us a unique vantage point where we can provide statistical analysis and insights about many different ecosystems. We use several tools to track Blockscout deployments, and find that the numbers fluctuate often.

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New chain launches

Every time a new chain launches, the butterflies 🦋 start fluttering in our Blockscout bellies! What new features and experiences will this chain bring, how will it expand our horizons, what incentives will arrive for early adopters, and what new innovations will come about as a result? Will the chain gain

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Welcoming Widgets

Blockchain data comes to life with the addition of rich metadata. Our latest widgets integration brings vital info and actionable insights to Blockscout address and contract pages. Widgets are live across EOA, token, and contract pages: giving you instant insight into the full onchain profile across risk, reputation, governance, and

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Activity Booster

We had a great time in Cannes and enjoyed meeting so many projects and builders using Blockscout! In addition to elevated institutional interest, there is also a renewed push towards trustlessness, decentralization, privacy and open-source. We're excited to be at the forefront of this next phase in Ethereum

Summertime Search

It's officially summer, and at Blockscout we're gearing up for some summertime search! This means more chains to explore, more search features, interop and multichain, and some exciting campaigns coming your way. This week we shine a light ☀️ on the Ink chain and share updates from

Multichaining

🧑🏼‍🚀🖖🏼 Greetings from the multichainverse! This week we explore some exciting recent updates including: * 1️⃣ Blockscout's new multichain explorer * 2️⃣ Refinements in the backend release v8.1 and upcoming frontend release v2.1 * 3️⃣ Ongoing collaborations and news from Soneium, Giveth, and Quicknode * 4️⃣ Mark your 📅 for ETHCC in

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Hacking IRL

We're headed to Prague this weekend for our first official in-person hackathon of 2025! With new features including Autoscout, Merit Integrations and the Blockscout SDK, along with $20,000 in bounties, there is something for every developer to buidl with. If you're in town, please swing