Blockscout News: November 2024

Hi friends! November was full of high notes 🎶 and a ton of new chain and partner announcements. In this month's newsletter we cover:

🥇 Blockscout Merits program launch
🇹🇭 Devcon & ETHGlobal Bangkok highlights
👩🏽‍💻 Dedicated token transfers page on 🔴 Optimism, dispute games on 🔵 Base, and a multichain portfolio integration with Zapper
🤝 Explorer announcements with Kraken's Ink Chain, Scroll, The Graph, Soneium, ZERϴ, Swell, Athene, ArenaZ, , Story, Creator, Asset, and Quicknode
📻 Media features in OurNetwork and mpost
🌱 Gitcoin Grants 22 results 🙏

Today's edition is brought to you by Soneium - a public Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain developed by Sony Block Solutions Labs to invoke emotion and empower creativity.

🥇 Blockscout Merits and Badges

We've been overwhelmed by community interest and participation in the Merits program since we launched November 8th, and we're just getting started!

Merits are designed to gamify the explorer experience and make exploration fun and rewarding. You can collect and earn Merits by completing a variety of activities, including visiting the Ethereum explorer and claiming daily Merits, referring friends, swapping and bridging tokens with Swapscout, or joining dedicated Merit campaigns. Badges also play a special role by rewarding certain activities with limited, mintable NFTs. Future campaigns will include using DAppscout to view, rate, and interact with dapps along with other engaging tasks. Here's how you can start participating today!

• Merits X Announcement and blog post about getting started with Merits.
• Swapscout Boost campaign: Earn additional Merits just by using Swapscout.
• Blockscout Badges website: Check your eligibility and mint badges.
• Milkroad post on all things Merits & Badges: Learn all the ins-and-outs of the program.

🇹🇭 Bangkok Wrapup

Our team made the most of Devcon by participating in workshops, presentations, and panels, then headed over to ETHGlobal Bangkok to work with more than 250 hackathon teams who completed projects for the Blockscout bounty. It was great to connect with so many gifted builders and talk with amazing folks in the Blockscout community. See the pictures, read the highlights, and meet our mascot in this dedicated post ⬇️

Blockscout Devcon 2024 and ETHGlobal highlights

Updates from the Blockscout team and pictures from the conference and hackathon. Over 250 teams applied and shared in the Blockscout bounty.

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Our head of research Kirill Fedoseev presented on multiple days throughout the conference. His workshop for ETHGlobal is an easy-to-digest intro for anyone looking to develop with Blockscout.

👩🏽‍💻 Features & Resources

• See the latest token transfers on OP with the newly developed token transfer page. You can filter by token type and view details including token type, amount transferred, ID (if applicable) and more. https://optimism.blockscout.com/token-transfers

• Dispute game views have come to the Blockscout Base instance 🎲 Blockscout tracks L2 blocks, age, and status of each dispute game (Defender wins, Challenger wins, or in progress while the game is taking place). Learn more about how dispute games work, and visit the Base dispute games page to see the games in action.
• Our latest integration with Zapper allows you to easily view and interact with your multichain portfolio. Simply view an account on Blockscout then click the Zapper icon to see all of your assets on multiple chains.

• Interested in learning how Blockscout indexers work to synchronously and asynchronously bring blockchain data to the masses? Hint- it requires a whole lot of fetchers! Learn more about how it works in this presentation by Blockscout chief architect Viktor Baranov.

🤝 Chains & Partners

• Kraken's Ink chain testnet officially launched in November and is already averaging more than 100K tx/day! Announcement | Explorer

• 📜 The Scroll SDK empowers custom zkEVM chain deployment, and Blockscout announced our support with essential infrastructure for a seamless experience. Visit the Scroll Explorer

• We announced a new collaboration with The Graph to bridge the gap between dapp discovery and web3 data! Read the announcement

• Zerion's ZERϴ Network is a new L2 featuring zero-gas transactions built for all —creators, builders, artists, newbies and OGs. Announcement | Explorer
• Swell L2 — the restaking yield layer — is designed as a hub for restaked assets on the Optimism Superchain. Announcement | Explorer
• Athene Network features an AI-driven super app offering support, security, and smart assistance to users. The Parthenon testnet is live now, with the mainnet launching soon! Article | Announcement | Explorer
• ArenaZ is a new rollup built with the OP Stack on Gelato RaaS, creating the future of entertainment by connecting studios, gamers, creators and players on this Superchain L2 network. Announcement | Explorer
• The final Story testnet, Odyssey, is now live and ready to power the next generation of AI, DeFi, and consumer applications. Announcement | Explorer
• Creator is a new L2 built on Optimism's Superchain, designed to enhance scalability, efficiency, and reward-driven growth. Announcement | Explorer
• Asset Chain is unlocking a tokenized global economy where every asset is on-chain. Blockscout explorer will help users interact with real world assets, and our explorer is now live on testnet. Announcement | Explorer
• The Quicknode Hackathon was a big success as projects used Blockscout API add-ons to scale their applications. Congrats to Rollup Explorer and CryptoLens for their winning projects!
• Soneium's Minato testnet continues to gain traction with developers and users. Smart contracts deployed on chain more than doubled in November! Visit the Minato Explorer.

📻 Media

• ICYMI Our Network ran a feature on Blockscout at the end of October. If you didn't have a chance to read check it out for some interesting statistics and trends in the explorer space.

• We wrote an in-depth guest post on mpost about the necessity of scaling to meet the demands of mass adoption. Scalability through account abstraction, chain abstraction, and consistent infrastructure will bring many more users onchain in the years to come.

🌱 Public Goods

GG22 was a huge round for Blockscout! We had so many individuals who voiced their support for a transparent, decentralized blockchain explorer through their generous donations. Each donation is matched by Gitcoin and amplifies the power of the individual, providing vital funding to help us provide and improve our open-source explorer option for all. In addition to the developer tooling round, we also participated in the ENS Community round and received a ton of support and matching funds in that round as well! Thank you again for the kind donations that keep Blockscout moving full steam ahead 🙏💪🚢

Coming in December

We're looking forward to wrapping up the year right with an end-of-year Blockscout release in December 🎁 that will include some exciting new features. Stay tuned 👀 and see you soon!

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 ⬇️