OurNetwork: Zoomed-in on Blockscout

Welcome to Zoomed-in, an onchain deep dive series from OurNetwork.

This week we're zooming in on Blockscout, an open-source block explorer that has been around since 2017 and recently raised a seed round to expand its product offerings.

These new offerings include an Explorer-as-a-Service product, which provides hosting, branding, and continuous maintenance of a standalone block explorer, a burgeoning dapp marketplace, where users can discover and rate a chains' apps, and partnerships with Rollups-as-a-Service providers.

All this comes as the EVM, and especially Layer 2s, have continued to proliferate, providing a clear need for block explorers and associated tooling. As this expansion continues, Blockscout is looking to redefine what a block explorer can do.

Let's zoom in on some of those emerging capabilities below.

① Blockscout: Network at a Glance 🌐

📈 Blockscout Offers Explorers Across 1000+ Blockchains

• Blockscout serves advanced onchain statistics and visual analytics for chains via a dedicated stats service. Account growth, transactions, fees, block size, gas usage, and contract information is available for various time periods and can be shared and downloaded in .png or .csv formats. As such Blockscout can provide the data crypto users have come to expect like active accounts on leading Layer 2s like Base, and daily average gas prices on Ethereum.

• As an open-source, public goods project, Blockscout develops new and unique features for a wide range of networks and environments. A focus on the Layer 2 experience has led to support for Layer 1-to-Layer 2 deposits/withdrawals, blob transactions (transactions batches), and output roots.

• Blockscout goes beyond conventional data metrics however with offerings unavailable elsewhere — these include dispute games on Optimism, MUD Worlds on Redstone, and Account Abstraction (User Operations) support for many chains. Below is an example of user operations transactions on Base.