Roadmap
Upcoming enhancements and updates to Blockscout
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: August 19, 2024 | Changelog
🟦 Q3-4 2024 / Q1 2024
We've updated our product roadmap for the remainder of 2024 and early 2025 to include several key product areas. We will be working in multiple directions simultaneously and prioritize items as needed/requested.
✅ 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
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:
New Microservices (folded into existing categories)
CEX/DEX views (deprioritized)
Ongoing Improvements (moved to existing categories)
Moved to Completed:
L2 Support
Visualizer Service
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:
Gas Tracker
Basic ENS support
Removed:
AWS template
Multisender native dapp
03.01.2024
Update milestones for Q1 2024.
Completed:
Universal smart contract front-end
Human readable transactions v1
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:
Improved indexer performance
Advanced filter and search
My Account improvements
Admin Account
17.04.2023
Revamp roadmap for 2023 milestones by Q.
Moved all In-research items to appropriate Q.
Added:
Q2,Q3,Q4 2023 items
Completed:
Landing Page
React UI v1
Rust Microservices v1
DApp Marketplace v1
My Account v1
27.07.2022
Updated marketplace to include Blockscout native DApps
Added Blockscout Microservices
Added Multi-chain search
Added personal asset management features
Added Blockscout ID
Combined several elements into UI category
Deployment improvements (Docker image) moved to completed.
Update Research Phase items to 2023.
06.07.2022
Added:
Analytics Dashboards
UI Overhaul
Modular Plug-and-Play Library
Completed:
Ethereum Mainnet Instance
11.04.2022
Rearranged into Completed and Ongoing Categories.
Updated Ongoing Item dates
Added UI enhancements
Marked as Completed
EIP-1559 Support <Completed>
Rollup Support <Completed>
Multi-file Contract Source Code Verification <Completed>
04.08.2021
Added multiple new items to Q4 Roadmap including:
EIP-1559 Support
Ethereum Mainnet Instance
My Account Functionality
Rollup Support
Deployment Improvements
Multi-file Contract Source Code Verification
Block/Address Detail Page Improvements
Data Sorting/Filtering
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