Blockscout News: October 2024
We're thrilled to announce Blockscout support for Superchain network chains including Unichain, Kraken's Ink Chain, World Chain & Sony's Soneium
Hello Friends 👋 The rollups keep on rollin' and we're thrilled to announce Blockscout support for new heavy-hitting 🔴 Superchain network chains including 🦄 Uniswap's Unichain 🐙 Kraken's Ink Chain 🌎 Worldcoin's World Chain 🎮 Sony's Soneium and more!
Along with chain additions, feature optimizations, and backend improvements, we've been having fun making Blockscout Badges featuring our cuddly capybara while we gear up for Devcon, EthGlobal Bangkok, and an exciting November announcement 👀 👇🏻
New Chains and Integrations
It's been an amazing month for L2 announcements and deployments!
- 🦄 Unichain: A new L2 designed for DeFi, built to be the home for liquidity across chains. Announcement | Testnet Blockscout Instance
- 🌎 Worldchain: World Chain’s vision is to ensure that blockchains ultimately benefit humans first. Announcement | Blockscout Instance
- 🐙 Kraken Ink: Ink will serve as a seamless bridge to DeFi, empowering users to move onchain with confidence and ease. Announcement | Instance Coming Soon
- 🎮 Soneium: Building a next-generation blockchain ecosystem designed to invoke emotion and empower creativity. Announcement | Minato Testnet Blockscout Instance
- 🦧 Apechain: a Layer 3 network developed on Arbitrum One which is fully compatible with the APE token and facilitates NFT minting, trading, and dapps. Announcement | Blockscout Instance
- 🌱 Superseed: A rollup designed to enhance the onchain experience by automatically repaying loans, Superseed officially joined the Superchain network. Announcement | Testnet Blockscout Instance
- 🪶 Gashawk: Our integration with Gashawk allows you to save double digit % on gas fees. Twitter Spaces | Integration
- Ethereum Follow Protocol (@efp): new listing on our DAppscout marketplace that enhances the social context of onchain interactions. Announcement | DAppscout Marketplace
Blockscout Badges
Blockscout Badges are a new NFT project that celebrates Blockscout related activities and achievements. Just as scouts earn merit badges for learning new skills and completing tasks, 'Block Scouts' can earn digital badges for their block exploration mastery.
Badges are available now to individuals who participated in previous Blockscout campaigns and activities. In the future, new badges will be available for completing different block explorer tasks like verifying contracts or rating dApps.
- Check available and retro badges
- Read about the Capybara Connection
- Mint your very own Blockscout Fren badge
👨🚀 Fellow Explorers, we've got something for you...
— Blockscout 🔭 (@blockscoutcom) October 10, 2024
A teaser into our Top Secret project: Scout Badges! 🏅
Have you participated in our recent Swapscout, Ratings or @smolrefuel campaigns? Donated via @Gitcoin or @Giveth? Your dedication deserves a reward!
✅ Check your… pic.twitter.com/X6mXpB1nzM
Hackathons & Events
We participated in several online and real world activities in October, including our first all hands team hackathon in Istanbul 🙌 ! We're feeling rejuvenated and cooking up some great ideas thanks to this in-person event.
That’s a wrap for our own Istanbullish event this week! 🇹🇷
— Blockscout 🔭 (@blockscoutcom) October 11, 2024
We're a fully remote team spread across multiple continents 🌎🌍🌏
And while remote work is great - the best people for the job are absolutely not all in the same city - the boost you get from short bursts of IRL… pic.twitter.com/WqvH7XdFMx
October Events
The Quicknode online hackathon is happening now and goes until Nov 2. We are offering several prizes for use of the Blockscout API add-ons featured in the Quicknode marketplace. Head of Research Kirill Fedoseev presented a workshop on using Blockscout APIs to create data rich applications.
- The Skylark campaign wrapped up with a lot of participation by new users learning about and interacting with Blockscout.
- We sponsored the AI2WEB3 bootcamp, a 5 day free intensive designed to bring new coders into the ecosystem. Multiple teams from the bootcamp went on to win bounties at EthGlobal San Francisco!
- Blockscout was an invited host for the Noves Rollup Cafe during Permissionless where caffeine and good vibes reigned supreme.
Coming In November
We're busy making Bangkok plans (MUD day, here we come) and hope to see you at some events happening all around the city. Please stop by our booth at EthGlobal Bangkok for some excellent swag, conversation, and a special surprise 🕶️ guest.
Public Goods and Grants
As an open source project serving the broad Ethereum ecosystem, Blockscout relies on community support for our continued development and growth. Thank you to everyone who is helping us reach more chains and bring more transparency and decentralization to the blockchain!
- We received a generous grant from GnosisDAO to continue our hosting services for their mainnet and Chiado testnet chains. Gnosis continues to innovate and we're excited to continue supporting their chain and initiatives 🙌
- We are currently participating in 2 Gitcoin Grant rounds and have received overwhelming support so far! We are blown away by the generosity of the community and looking forward to the feature development made possible by these funding opportunities.
- Both rounds close on 6 November. Please check them out and donate, any amount goes a long way thanks to Quadratic Funding. And while you're at it, check out some other great open source projects participating in the rounds:
News and Media
Blockscout was featured in several publications this month.
Our Network
- Our Network zoomed in on Blockscout for a feature article about our capabilities, user trends, and future directions.
Crypto.news
We weighed in on Vitalik's alignment plans for Ethereum in this cryptonews article.
Ankish Jain
MPOST
We wrote about the importance of options when it comes to block explorers. Choice promotes healthy competition, innovation, and a better blockchain user experience for everyone.
Igor Barinov
About that November Announcement
Stay tuned 📻 on November 8 keep your 👀 peeled for a special announcement which will change the way you explore and engage with your favorite block explorer 🧑🏼🚀 🪐 ✨✌🏼
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 ⬇️
