Roadmap
The Blockscout roadmap is a high-level strategic plan designed to guide research and development. Target dates and details are reviewed by the team and subject to move, adjust and change as the project evolves. Note that only completed items (✅ Status: Complete) are considered achieved project milestones.Last update: SEP 2025 | Changelog
🟦 Q3-4 2025
We’ve updated our roadmap for the remainder of 2025 with a focus on our flagship auto-launch platform Autoscout.⭐️ Autoscout
Includes 2025 & Q 1-2 2026 Roadmap
⭐️ Autoscout
Includes 2025 & Q 1-2 2026 Roadmap
2025
- Plugin system: Create basic plugin system for self-deployed chains
- User ops plugin: First plugin launched for user ops
- Recurring payments: Build out recurring payments system for regular users
- New Plugins:
- Admin panel: Instance can access to admin functionality
- Account Features: Instances can add MyAccount to provide user-centric features such as tags and API key generation
- BENS (ens resolution): Instances can add support for ENS names.
- Automatic scaling: Will provide real-time scaling as needed to support large spikes or decreases in usage.
- DDoS protection: Improve security and reduce potential slowing from DDoS attacks
- Setup wizard (get setting from RPC URL): Simple setup for new instances
- Background RPC validation: Will improve monitoring and alerts
- Password protection: Instances can protect new instances before they go public.
⭐️ AI integrations
⭐️ AI integrations
- MCP server integrations, improve MCP service and expand usage
- Explore basic chat integration with instances
- Chat integration with DeFi products such as Swap
⭐️ Universal Bridge Indexer
⭐️ Universal Bridge Indexer
- Index cross-chain bridge transactions
- Create UI interface for exploration
- Targeting Gnosis Chain as the first live instance
⭐️ PRO API
⭐️ PRO API
- PRO API service with higher limits and additional endpoints
- Create self-service module
⭐️ Essential Dapps
⭐️ Essential Dapps
- Design integrated interface and move current standalone Blockscout DeFi apps (Swap, Revoke) to Essential Dapps within the explorer
- Add Multisender app to Essential Dapps
⭐️ Custom Dev
⭐️ Custom Dev
- Continued development for customized instances
- Based on client needs on a chain-by-chain basis
- Support new and upcoming features on hosted chains
⭐️ Data Services
⭐️ Data Services
- Create data service with wide instance coverage.
- Custom data delivery for a wide range of real-time and historica data.
- Contract and protocol deployment tracking and ecosystem analysis
- Cross-chain liquidity movement and large asset flow monitoring
- Public address labeling and protocol identification
- Dapp interaction and dapp usage reports
⭐️ Analytics and Statistics
⭐️ Analytics and Statistics
Smart Contract Analytics
- Provide detailed analytics for smart contract usage and performance
- Offer in-depth analysis of regular user accounts
- Incorporate relevant market data into the explorer
- Provide statistics broken down by different protocols
⭐️ NFT Explorer Features
⭐️ NFT Explorer Features
- Display top NFTs
- Show latest trades, transfers, and mints
- Integrate with NFT marketplaces and platforms
🟦 Q1-2 2025
We accomplished many important updates in the first half of 2025. Any items not completed have been either restructured or moved to Q3-4.✅ Account Abstraction
Target Date: Q2 2025- Support for AA transaction actions: Improved handling of AA-specific transactions
- Public tags for Bundlers, Paymasters, Factories: Better identification of AA-related accounts
✅ Advanced Features
Target Date: Q2 2025 Includes:- Multi-chain Search: Allows users to search across multiple blockchain networks simultaneously
- Advanced Filters Enables more detailed and customizable data filtering options
- Export Filter Results to CSV Allows users to download filtered data in CSV format for further analysis
- Validators Page Displays information about validators for Proof-of-Stake chain chains
- Simplified Account Creation Integration with WalletConnect for easier account setup
✅ Analytics and Statistics
Target Date: Q1 2025- Customizable Time Views: Daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly data views
✅ Defi Integrations
Target Date: Q2 2025- Swap: Token exchange functionality
- Revoke approvals: Manage token approvals
✅ Data Availability
Target Date: Q2 2025- Celestia DA for rollups
✅ Enhanced Name Service Support
Target Date: Q2 2025- Extend ENS support to Ethereum L2 explorers
- Enable multiple name services on a single chain
✅ Token Information Service
Target Date: Q2 2025- Integrate CEX/DEX data: Information from centralized and decentralized exchanges
- Display liquidity pairs data
- Capture token prices from multiple sources for accuracy
✅ Previously Completed
✅ Basic ENS Support
Target Date: Q2 2024 Status: ✅ Completed- ✅ Resolving ENS names for addresses and listing names for the address
- ✅ Enabling search by ENS name
- ✅ Search by ENS name
✅ Visualizer Service
Target Date: Q2 2024 Status: ✅ Completed Visualizer service offering various visualization schemes, such as Sol2UML and transaction graphs for complex blockchain data analysis.✅ Ongoing L2 support
Target Date: Q2 2024 Status: ✅ Completed- zkSync Era and zkSync Sepolia Testnet
- Arbitrum
✅ Gas Tracker
Target Date: Q2 2024 Status: ✅ Completed Users can monitor gas prices and trends to help them make informed decisions about transaction fees and timing.✅ Human Readable Transactions v1
Target Date: Q1 2024 Status: ✅ Completed Display complex transactions in an easily understandable format for non-technical users. This includes the ability to automatically decode transaction data, including tokens, contracts, and events.✅ Universal Smart Contract front-end
Target Date: Q3 2023 Status: ✅ Completed Improve and simplify the Smart Contract deployment & verification process. Integrate React components to abstract away common on-chain operations.✅ Improved Indexer Performance
Target Date: Q2 2023 Status: ✅ Completed Load speed, database optimization & caching, data parsing features to maintain optimal performance. These efforts will continue as additional features are added to BlockScout.✅ Advanced Filter and Sort
Target Date: Q2 2023 Status: ✅ Completed Enhance filter and sort options so users can view transaction data in various formats including transaction types, assets & time ranges. Explore ability to save and share custom filter configurations.✅ My Account Improvements
Target Date: Q2 2023 Status: ✅ Completed My Account beta is active and will be rolled out on a case-by-base basis, with hosted instances receiving priority. Includes adding the following features:- Watchlists: Users can create watchlists for specific addresses or contracts, and view all transactions from the watchlists on the main page.
- Enhanced CSV export features
- Smart contract ownership verification
- Airdrop eligibility tool
✅ Admin Dashboard
Target Date: Q2 2023 Status: ✅ Completed Rust microservice which will provide a comprehensive dashboard for blockchain administrators. Available for hosted versions first.- Token info
- Public tags
- Real-time network monitoring, chain statistics, user analytics
✅ Landing Page
Target Date: Q3 2022 Status: ✅ Completed A new landing page is in development for Blockscout to assist new users and developers understand the Blockscout feature set and find information quickly.✅ UI Redesign
Target Date: Q3-Q4 2022 Status: ✅ v1 Completed see https://eth-goerli.blockscout.com/ A new UI interface is under development to improve data exploration, optimize views, and provide overall better UX for Blockscout users. The UI is being built from the ground up. It will overhaul all aspects of Blockscout engagement, creating a complete all-in-one interface for chain exploration. In addition to a modern design, the upgrade will also improvements to features such as:- Search: Prominent search, mobile upgrades, improved dropdown, full-page results, search control
- Data Sort/Filtering: Ability to sort data (ascending & descending by column). Improved pagination and filtering abilities.
- My Account: See below for features related to My Account functionality.
✅ DApp Marketplace v1
Target Date: Q4 2022 Status: ✅ v1 Completed Chain users will be able to access applications and modules directly from Blockscout, vastly improving the overall chain experience. Interoperability, swaps, transactions, and 3rd party project-based apps will be accessible and integrated with the modular interface. Blockscout will also develop native applications for this marketplace. Several are in active development.- Blockscout Swap: Swap feature using an aggregator under the hood for simple swaps without leaving Blockscout.
- Blockscout Revoke: Find contracts/apps you have granted allowances to (the ability to spend tokens on your behalf) and revoke these permissions.
- More TBD
✅ My Account Functionality v1
Target Date: Q3 2022 Status: ✅ Instance deployed on Gnosis Chain. Undergoing improvements. We will explore adding account features for users looking for explorer personalizations, including alerts and notifications, the ability to watch specific addresses, name and customize data within the dashboard, and other advanced features.✅ Blockscout Rust Microservices v1
Target Date: Q3 2022 Status: ✅ v1 completed - Smart Contract Verification microservice New Rust-developed microservices will be enabled on Blockscout to extend functionality and modularity. We are revamping smart contract verification to use a Rust module and working on a smart contract uml visualization module to start.✅ Deployment Improvements
Target Date: Q3 2022 Status: ✅ Completed, Documentation in progress BlockScout deployment can be complicated for new users. Deployment improvements within a Docker environment will enable a fast path for easy setup and deployment.✅ Ethereum Mainnet BlockScout Instance
Target Date: Q2 2022 Status: ✅ Instance deployed, optimizations ongoing. BlockScout offered prior support for the Ethereum mainnet. This instance was discontinued; however a new instance is now planned to further increase explorer diversity on Ethereum and provide additional transparency for Ethereum users.✅ ERC721 Metadata
Target Date: Q4 2019 Status: ✅ Complete, ERC721 Metadata storage and display (Release 2.1.0) and verification checks (Release 2.1.1) are implemented. ERC-721 non-fungible tokens represent ownership of digital or physical assets. Each token is unique, and may include images and other data which identifies the asset and provides additional information. This might include registration information (for example land, property or art registration), identifying numbers or other data unique to that token. As ERC-721 tokens continue to proliferate, it is important to display the relevant information related to each owned token.✅ Staking DApp Integration
Target Date: Q3 2020 Status: ✅ Complete Q4 2020 BlockScout will support the new POSDAO staking consensus mechanism through an on-board UI. The initial implementation will support the xDai Stable Chain. This will allow users to place stake directly from the interface, monitor validator activity, and participate in consensus on the xDai Chain.✅ Smart Contract Write Functionality
Target Date: Q2 - Q3 2020 Status: ✅ Complete, Write contract/ write proxy functionalities are implemented (Release 3.3.0). Users can currently verify and read contracts on BlockScout. The next smart contract development phase will allow users to interact with contracts directly through the interface. Verified contract methods will be accessible and users can connect through a web3 wallet (such as MetaMask) to access and execute contract functions.✅ ERC1155 Support
Target Date: Q2 2021 Status: ✅ Basic Functionality added for xDai chain, additional support in process. ERC-1155 tokens are increasing in popularity as a way to manage multiple-token types including fungible and non-fungible tokens within a single instance. This feature provides parsing and display of tokens contained within an ERC-1155. Additional functionality such as metadata display is in process.✅ Rollup Support
Target Date: Q4 2021 Status: ✅ Instances for Optimism and Arbitrum on Gnosis Chain BlockScout availability and support is available for Optimism and Arbitrum on the Gnosis Chain. Includes tracking for gas price on L1 and the L2 implementations. Currently Optimism is the favored deployment.- Optimism: https://blockscout.com/xdai/optimism
- Arbitrum: https://blockscout.com/xdai/aox/
✅ EIP-1559 Support
Target Date: Q3-Q4 2021 Status: ✅ Complete The Gnosis Chain explorer supports EIP-1559 functionality with a stated transaction type (2 for EIP-1559) and includes data reporting of Max Fee per Gas, Max Priority Fee per Gas and Priority Fee / Tip paid for a transaction.✅ Multi-file Contract Source Code Verification
Target Date: Q4 2021 Status: ✅ Complete BlockScout supports verification for contracts via multiple methods including Hardhat and the Hardhat and Sourcify plugins. More information is available here.Change Log
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30.09.2025 | Updated 2025 with remaining items and moved items from Q1/Q2 to completed or Q3-4 2025 based on status. Moved to Q3/Q4
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19.08.2024 | Major update to restructure roadmap for the rest of 2024. Moved completed items from Q1-2 into completed section and adjusted remaining items to fit into targeted areas for the remainder of 2024. Removed from Roadmap:
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29.05.2024 | Minor update: Will be adding a major overhaul in June for Q3-Q4 and will reconfigure, add new items and remove others. Completed:
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03.01.2024 | Update milestones for Q1 2024. Completed:
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07.11.2023 | Updated milestones to reflect current quarterly work. A more extensive update with many reworked milestones will be added for 2024. |
10.08.2023 | Updated Q3 milestones to account for completed items. Completed:
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