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Build on Robinhood Chain with the Blockscout Pro API

Robinhood Chain is live, and Blockscout is its official block explorer, powering the chain from block one. Robinhood, one of the world's largest fintech companies, is bringing tokenized stocks, ETPs, and RWAs onchain, and Blockscout provides the transparency layer to track all of it: transactions, batches, addresses, and

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Monthly Brief: June 2026

BTC shed 23% from its May high. $840M in exploits and counting. Binance exits the EU. Here's everything that mattered on-chain in June — plus what we shipped.

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Agentic Fintech Needs a Data Layer It Can Trust

AI agents are making financial decisions at scale. Most of them read data they can't verify. Here's why that's the foundational problem — and what on-chain data changes.

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News: It's Pro Time

It's time to make the Pro API switch, and it's easier than you think. We've sent out a few notices, but this is our last newsletter before the July 1 deadline to upgrade to our Pro API service. This also lines up with Etherscan&

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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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AI Update: Agent skills are live, MCP now uses the PRO API, x402 in progress

Blockscout's agent skills are live on the Pro API — and x402 payments are next, letting agents pay per call for onchain data with no accounts or keys.

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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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News: July 1 is Pro API day!

On July 1 we officially transition from our per-instance APIs to the universal Blockscout Pro API. One key, one base URL, coverage across 100+ chains, with both REST and JSON-RPC access, additional endpoints, and rich metadata throughout. Many projects have already made the switch. If you haven'

Blockchain 101

Gas and Fees, Explained

What gas is, why fees move, and how to read every fee on a transaction. A plain-English guide to Ethereum gas and how to check it on Blockscout.

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Leveling up your Agents

Agents need blockchain data to operate onchain — and Blockscout is building the infrastructure to deliver it. Our latest release is a skill for web3 developer agents that handles everything from API key onboarding to endpoint discovery to code generation, all powered by the Blockscout PRO API. agent-skills/web3-dev

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Build a Multichain Tax Calculator with the Blockscout Pro API

One Pro API key, three feeds, every EVM chain Blockscout indexes. Output a tax-grade CSV any cost-basis tool can ingest.

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Eco: Blockscout Leads the 2026 Etherscan Alternatives Shortlist

Eco's 2026 buyer's guide names Blockscout as the explorer to reach for first when Etherscan doesn't fit — open source, self-hostable, broad rollup coverage.

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Zama Pt. II: FHE Operations

Blockscout now supports FHE operations with Zama, enabling visibility into encrypted smart contract execution and homomorphic compute activity.

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How to Explore the Blockscout Pro API with Postman

The Blockscout Pro API Postman collection is live. Import it, add your API key, and start querying 100+ EVM chains in under 5 minutes.

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Monthly Brief: May 2026

Here's the 30-day digest from the Blockscout desk: what shifted in markets, where exploits hit hardest, and what we shipped to keep developers building through the noise.

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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

Rootstock Global Wallet M2 NFT Badge

The Rootstock Global Wallet just hit its second major milestone, and there's a fresh badge to mark it. The Milestone 2 badge celebrates the next big step in the rollout: full Rootstock Global Wallet integration inside the Rootstock Blockscout explorer. Login and on-chain interaction now happen directly

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Meet the Blockscout MCP Server

The Blockscout MCP Server gives AI agents a clean tool surface for on-chain data across nearly 100 chains — no RPC plumbing, no custom indexers.

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Build a Multichain Wallet Portfolio Tracker with Blockscout PRO API

Create a Portfolio Tracker like this (Standalone HTML tracker) in minutes with Blockscout's PRO API! Follow the easy tutorial below to learn about multichain queries, available stats, data, and how to get it. All you need is a free PRO API key to get started. Get your PRO

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Scouting April: Five Stories from the Chain

April's crypto news in one pass — restaking audits, an M&A deal, two mainnet launches, a hack aftermath, and what shipped on Blockscout.

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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

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New Release: Blockscout v11.0.0

💡What's New: Async CSV Exports, FHE Support, and Several Breaking API Changes Blockscout v11.0.0 is the 3rd major backend release focused on database storage optimization. v11 reduces the size of the internal_transactions table by approximately 30–40%. When combined with 9.3.3, zero-value

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How Blockscout Brings Blockchain Data to AI Agents and LLMs

AI tools keep getting better at handling complex data. However, blockchain data presents some unique challenges. Raw tx logs, hex-encoded fields, and nested contract calls can be extremely complex. Add in the fact that this data is streaming constantly from multiple blockchains, and you have a recipe for some

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Build a Multichain Dashboard with Blockscout PRO API

Create a dashboard like this (Standalone HTML dashboard) in minutes with Blockscout's PRO API! Follow the easy tutorial below to learn about multichain queries, available stats, data, and how to get it. All you need is a free PRO API key to get started. GET YOUR FREE API

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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