<p>Blockscout is an open-source explorer serving the Ethereum community. The project has been active since 2018 and has made considerable improvements over the past 1 1/2 years to support the vast array of chains entering the ecosystem. Any chain/network can fork Blockscout and use it as a block explorer free of charge. This includes optimistic rollups, zk rollups, L3s, Bitcoin L2s, appchains - all shapes and sizes of EVM-compatible chain. Blockscout runs Ethereum instances as a public good (including Mainnet , Sepolia and Holesky) without ongoing compensation. This is paramount for transparency and redundancy and provides many useful tools for developers (APIs, contract verification) as well as transaction tracking capabilities for the blockchain public. Blockscout is used by nearly 600 networks that we are aware of. Most of these are self-hosted instances. We do also offer paid hosting services for networks who want to offload archive node and explorer hosting, customizations, maintenance and upgrades to our team of experts and optimized infrastructure. We have achieved many milestones in the past year, notably a large push towards feature parity with Etherscan, support for all EIPs (including 4844), a standalone smart contract verification service, major UI upgrades, and major performance optimizations. Any funding we receive from this campaign will go towards defraying infrastructure costs for our public goods instances and developing new features to support open-source exploration. </p>
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