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 for Circle's native bridge.
The ARC testnet block explorer is already one of our busiest, and we're excited to see how this collaboration unfolds as the ARC chain onboards new audiences and institutions.
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🗞️ Blockscout News in Brief
- Big community energy in Gitcoin GG24
- Essential Dapps and the new Merits Streak Badge
- Partner updates from Viction and Clusters
- ETHGlobal ETHOnline hackathon winners announced
🙏 Thankful for our Community!
The Blockscout community came through big time during Gitcoin x Giveth's GG24! We were able to participate in both the Developer Tooling & Infrastructure and Interop Standards, Infra and Analytics rounds.
We ended with the 2nd highest number of unique donors in both rounds, and received the most total matching funds of any project across both rounds!
In total, Blockscout received donations from 226 individuals, resulting in $13,783 in matching funds. These funds will help us continue to create in-demand features for open-source exploration. Thank you so much to all who donated and supported vital open-source public goods 🥰
You can view the round results here: https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/gg24-oss-quadratic-funding-results/24782
🧑🏻💻 Product updates
Essential dapps
We launched our new Essential dapps toolbox, starting with 3 DeFi tools that streamline your onchain financial life. Essential dapps are baked directly into Blockscout, and you can swap, send batch transactions (multisend), and revoke token approvals (coming soon), safely and quickly right from the explorer.
👉 Learn more about Essential dapps
To mark the occasion, we're offering no-fee multisend transactions in collaboration with our partner Multisender.
👉 No-fee multisends expire soon, so get sending today!
Streak Badges
We released new Streak Badges for Merit fans and collectors. Streaks are achieved by completing daily Merit claims on Blockscout without missing a day, and 3 badges are now available. More than 200 power users have already minted all 3! Login and checkout the badges to see if you are eligible.
All Things MCP
Our 9-part blog series goes in-depth into the Blockscout MCP and how it can be used along with your favorite LLM to find data gems hidden within the blockchain. If you want to deep-dive into MCP and AI for Blockchain data, this MCP article is a great place to start.
🤝 Partner Updates
In addition to our exciting ARC collaboration, we also announced several new partnerships this past week.
- Viction: Viction is a people-centric blockchain, offering zero-gas transactions and enhanced security to make Web3 easy and safe for everyone. Our full-featured explorer provides an accesible gateway to the Viction chain.
- Clusters: Clusters uses a universal naming directory for managing addresses on multiple blockchains. Our new integration lets you search cross-chain identities and dive into transactions with ease. See it live now on Soneium.
🗓️ Event Updates
ETHGlobal Winners
ETHGlobal ETHOnline 2025 wrapped with over 600 hackathon teams, 135 of which submitted to Blockscout bounties! We were blown away by entries and had a difficult time deciding the ultimate winners of our bounties. Checkout this thread where we name the winners!
The PetPet team celebrated winning our best Autoscout deployment prize, one of 3 Blockscout tracks.
Untold Dubai
Our head of research Kirill Fedoseev took the stage at Untold Dubai to discuss AI X Blockchain: Building the Next Generation of Tech Products. The talk was part of a 4 day mega festival featuring AI, gaming, creators, music and Web3 tech in Dubai.
Meet Blockscout at Devconnect
We'll have a small team on the ground in Buenos Aires - find us in our Blockscout shirts, we'd love to connect and learn about your explorations throughout the Ethereum Universe!
The Blockscout newsletter goes out to all MyAccount community users on supported chains. We welcome your feedback on topics you'd like to see covered or any questions you have. Visit us on X or Discord to get your explorer questions answered or get your project added to our growing network list.
