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.

⭐️ Advanced Features

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 any Proof-of-Stake chain

Simplified Account Creation

• Integration with WalletConnect for easier account setup

⭐️ Account Abstraction (AA)

• Blockscout AA wallet: A native wallet supporting account abstraction

• Support for AA transaction actions: Improved handling of AA-specific transactions

• Public tags for Bundlers, Paymasters, Factories: Better identification of AA-related accounts

⭐️ Enhanced Name Service (ENS)

• Extend ENS support to Ethereum L2 explorers

• Support for off-chain names using CCIP (Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol)

• Support for DNS-based names (e.g., .com domains)

• Enable multiple name services on a single chain

• Display ENS NFTs: Show NFTs associated with ENS names

⭐️ Data Availability (DA)

• Celestia DA for rollups

• Eigen DA for rollups

• Avail

⭐️ Analytics and Statistics

Smart Contract Analytics

• Provide detailed analytics for smart contract usage and performance

Advanced EOA (Externally Owned Account) Analytics

• Offer in-depth analysis of regular user accounts

Market Data Integration

• Incorporate relevant market data into the explorer

Customizable Time Views

• Add daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly data views

Protocol-specific Stats

• Provide statistics broken down by different protocols

⭐️ NFT Explorer

NFT-specific Features

• Display top NFTs

• Show latest trades, transfers, and mints

• Integrate with NFT marketplaces and platforms

⭐️ DeFi Integrations

Research and develop native Blockscout apps for basic DeFi functions:

• Swap: Token exchange functionality

• Bridge: Cross-chain asset transfer

• Stake: Token staking options

• Faucet: Free token distribution for testing

• Revoke approvals: Manage token approvals

• Multisender: Send tokens to multiple addresses at once

⭐️ Token Information Service

Enhanced Token Data

• Integrate CEX/DEX data: Information from centralized and decentralized exchanges

• Display liquidity pairs data

• Capture token prices from multiple sources for accuracy

⭐️ Cloud Console and Autoscout

• Deploy customized white-label Blockscout explorers for EVM chains

• Features include:

  • Console for easy management

  • Cloud hosting options

  • API access

✅ 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

Update	Items
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