Blockscout news: Feb 2025

February flew by 🕊️ Short on days but long on development, we pushed out major updates and announced some amazing new campaigns and chains. We ended the month at ETHDenver meeting many of our valued partners and making promising new frenships. We're already digging into March, but wanted to share our highlights from a packed February 👇🏻

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February TL;DR

• Product Updates: We released a new major backend version v7.0.0 with many optimizations and API changes along with an accompanying frontend version v1.38.0.
• Campaigns & Merits: We successfully wrapped campaigns with Mellow Protocol and Gnosis, and dove into a new Academy quest campaign with Ink. The Merits Marketplace opened for business where you can redeem your Merits for web3 benefits and discounts.
• Chains & Partners: We launched new explorers for Unichain, Story Protocol, and ICB network along with big enhancements for our Optimism and Soneium instances. We're also participating in the Quicknode rollout accelerator and building a massive verification dataset with the Verifier Alliance.
• Public Goods & Grants: We rolled out a new Universal Public Goods Supporter badge for all Gitcoin round donors (Infra and ENS rounds) and participated in the Lovin' on Public Goods Giveth round in February.
• Newsworthy: We simplified our X handle to https://x.com/blockscout and were featured in a video by security researcher Patrick Collins where he breaks down the Bybit Hack with help from Blockscout proxy contract details.

Product Updates

• Backend version v7.0.0 introduces new API endpoints for internal transactions and user operations along with a host of new ENV variables and features. If you are running Blockscout, please check out the release for breaking changes and other caveats. A simple migration guide will be available in the docs, and you can always reach out to us in Discord for any issues with migrating to the latest version.
• Frontend version 1.38.0 supports account abstraction (EIP-7702), tags search, scam token filtering, and many other features. Update to this version along with the latest backend release to optimize your explorer.

• Our latest Blockscout product pulse series is designed to elevate your explorer experience and help you get the most out of Blockscout on any chain. Articles released this month include:

Customize your Chain Exploration with Blockscout Tags

Learn how to customize your blockchain exploration with public and private tags on Blockscout.

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Dappscout Sorting: Learn how to Sort Dapps by Categories

Dappscout is a user-friendly tool designed to help users effortlessly explore various decentralized applications (Dapps) across multiple blockchain networks and protocols. The platform carefully curates an extensive and diverse list of Dapps and categorizes them for easy navigation and access. Whether you’re searching for a swapping platform that facilitates seamless

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Improved Features for Smart Contracts on Blockscout

Blockscout is revamping its user interface with new smart contract features. Learn about these features and how to use them.

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Campaigns & Merits

• The guild campaign with Ink is in session this week! Be sure to jump on and participate in The Academy class to learn and earn.

• The Gnosis Merits campaign was a great success! Participants earned Merits by bridging, swapping, governing and gaming on Gnosis as they explored the ins-and-outs of the chain. If all tasks were successfully completed, the Gnosis Osmosis badge was unlocked for minting.

• The Mellow Protocol flash campaign was a targeted offering which onboarded new users to the Merits ecosystem and provided Merits rewards to qualifying Mellow depositors.

Earn Merits with Mellow Protocol: A New Way to Boost Your Score

Looking for new ways to earn Merits? Through our integration with Mellow Protocol, vault depositors can now earn Merits while their assets work in liquid restaking vaults. Get the benefits of vault yields and Merit rewards in one place. Key Points * Earn Merits for depositing assets into any Mellow Protocol

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• Checkout the latest addition to the Merits program - our Merits Redemption Marketplace where you can trade Merits for services and discounts including offerings from Ledger, Dappnode, GnosisPay, Cryptorank, Bankless, XName and more! Use your Merits to access exclusive discounts on useful web3 products.

Chains & Partners

🦄 Unichain mainnet launched in February with Blockscout as an official explorer partner!

Unichain Mainnet Goes Live: Supported by Blockscout Block Explorer

Unichain, a groundbreaking Layer 2 blockchain designed to be the home for DeFi and cross-chain liquidity, has officially launched its mainnet. From day one, users can explore this high-performance network through Blockscout’s comprehensive Unichain block explorer, bringing unprecedented transparency and accessibility to DeFi operations. Explore Unichain What is Unichain? Built

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꧁IP꧂ The Story public mainnet is already racking up impressive transaction and address stats since the February launch.

🔴 We introduced interop features for Optimism testnets just in time for ETHDenver. Hackers were able to utilize Blockscout to track source and destination chains as tokens traversed the Superchain ecosystem. We're excited to enable this feature and more Superchain optimizations on Optimism mainnet 🔜!

📀 Soneium continues to gain momentum in the blockchain ecosystem, attracting many new users and to their fast and rapidly expanding platform. We integrated Dappscout into the Soneium explorer to provide users with a curated dapps list including swaps, bridges, liquid staking, lending and NFT protocols.

💻 ICB Network mainnet went live in February, fully supported with a robust Blockscout explorer.

ICB Network blockchain explorer - View ICB Network stats | Blockscout

Open-source block explorer by Blockscout. Search transactions, verify smart contracts, analyze addresses, and track network activity. Complete blockchain data and APIs for the ICB Network (ICB Network) Explorer network.

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🚀 We're super excited to partner with Quicknode as a participant in their $65M Rollout Accelerator program! This program is designed for developers and founders who want fast track their rollup projects to mainnet with the help from many top-tier partners. Apply before March 19, 2025 to book your spot in the program.

QuickNode Launches $65M Accelerator for Rollup Projects

Forget the VC struggle. We’re putting $65M+ into rollup founders—no equity is taken, no strings attached—just pure acceleration.

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🔷 The Verifier Alliance collective is bringing open access to EVM smart contract source code. Blockscout is participating alongside Sourcify, Routescan and others to democratize source code data and build the largest publicly verified contract dataset, available for all.

Public Goods & Grants

• Our latest Blockscout Supporter badge honors those who give to public goods and help support the entire open-source ecosystem. The Public Goods Supporter Badge is available to anyone who previously donated to any project in the recent Gitcoin "GG22 OSS - Developer Tooling and Libraries" or "ENS Ecosystem" rounds. Visit below to check your eligibility and mint!

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• In February we participated in the Giveth Loving on Public Goods QF round and received generous matching funds from Public Nouns, Glo Dollar, Mux Protocol and the amazing community of Giveth Donors! Next up we hope to participate in the ENS x Octant Public Goods Round on Giveth beginning March 18.

📣 Get Funded: ENS x Octant Public Goods Round

While a chunk of our team is at ETHDenver (tweet us to say hi and catch us IRL), we’re here with an exciting new funding round. We’ve partnered with ENS (Ethereum Name Service) to fund a Public Goods Round for funding Ethereum infra, utility, and education. 0:00 /0:28

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• We had the opportunity to share the stage on a panel with some amazing projects (Gitcoin, Glo Dollar, Giveth and Open Source Observer) at the Schelling Point conference in Denver. We discussed public goods, new funding mechanisms coming to Gitcoin grants, and ideas to recognize and honor the donors who make publicly-funded projects possible. We'll share the recording when it's available.

Newsworthy

• Blockscout's X profile is finally simplified! Follow us at https://x.com/blockscout for the latest news, alpha, partnerships and more.
• We started a deep dive into the Solana ecosystem to see what a fully-featured block explorer can do for the network. Learn more about our R&D efforts and plans here:

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 Bybit theft was a big February story with many researchers dissecting what happened to help understand the attack and prevent future incidents. Patrick Collins is a well known security researcher who provided an excellent overview that followed the transactions. Checkout his breakdown where he uses Blockscout to analyze the proxy contract and decode the input data.

• Last but not least, several members of the Blockscout team (+ our Capybara friend) had the opportunity to join the ETHDenver conference and meet many of our partners at the conference and amazing side events. We'd like to thank all of the projects and individuals who continue to make Blockscout the #1 block explorer available for chains today. We sincerely appreciate all of the invites, dinners, personalized swag, face-to-face meetings, information sharing and gms from all of our valued partners in the ecosystem! We're excited to continue building alongside you all and onboarding the next generation of blockchain users.

The Blockscout monthly 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.