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Please provide details and evidence of your participation.", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "https://gap.karmahq.xyz/project/blockscout-open-source-block-explorer", "hidden": false, "question": "Do you have a Karma GAP set up? If yes, please provide proof. If not, can you set one up before applying?", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Blockscout supports the greater Ethereum ecosystem with an open source block explorer. This explorer can be used by any chain and customized to suit the needs of that chain and its users. For Octant, this means associated projects can use the explorer to provide information about their dapps/projects (through DAppscout - ie  https://eth.blockscout.com/apps/octant), include tags and labels related to their projects, and verify their smart contracts. Because an explorer is essential infrastructure, it is used by people everyday to check their transactions, read contracts and more. Providing relevant and accurate information in a transparent, decentralized way is vital for the growth of the ecosystem.", "hidden": false, "question": "Please describe how your project contributes to the growth and development of the Octant ecosystem.", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We want to provide data that is instantly accessible and usable for both chain observers and developers. Blockchain data is a big part of the education process - projects need access to analytic data so they can educate their users. Through the inclusion of metadata, we can also provide offchain data that relates to onchain data (for example farcaster account links from address pages), creating a richer data environment. We also aim to provide educational materials for the community about how to explore blockchain data (through our tooltips series and blog posts) and information about new EIPs or other updates that impact exploration (such as https://www.blog.blockscout.com/blobs/).", "hidden": false, "question": "How does your project align with the round's focus on community and education within the Octant ecosystem?", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We are committed to continued growth of the open source product as well as initiatives to bring more cohesiveness to L2/L3 networks. Our roadmap for the remainder of the year includes:\n- Better support for account abstraction through public tagging and AA-specific transaction handling\n- Enhanced name service coverage to support multiple L2s and multiple name services on a single chain.\n- DA (Data availability) support for rollups \n- A simple wizard for 5 minute deployment of an explorer for any new L2 or L3 rollup.\n- Multi-chain search page\n\nMore details about our product roadmap can be found at https://docs.blockscout.com/about/roadmap", "hidden": false, "question": "Provide a clear roadmap of your project, detailing future milestones and deliverables. How does this demonstrate your commitment to long-term impact and growth within the Octant ecosystem?", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Blockscout has been active for more than 6 years, relying on grants and public goods funding over that time to help build and run an open-source explorer.  We\u2019ve grown tremendously over the past 2 years, supporting more than 600 networks. Many of these projects fork and use Blockscout for free, and some use our explorer as a service which provides hosting and maintenance. While these funds cover a portion of our resources, we still rely on public goods funding to support our infrastructure and team of 30. Most of these team members are researchers and developers with many years of blockchain experience in fields such as sidechains, bridges, consensus mechanisms, and zkproofs.\n", "hidden": false, "question": "Describe your team's expertise and how it contributes to the successful execution of your project.", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "An open source block explorer is a foundational tool that can be used by many projects. We\u2019ve worked with some other Octant based projects to support their DAppscout listings. We are happy to collaborate with other open source projects in any ways that we can to increase exposure and promote decentralization.", "hidden": false, "question": "How does your project complement or enhance existing initiatives within the Octant ecosystem rather than competing directly against them?", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We engage our community through social media, events and conferences (sponsored EthGlobal hackathons and other hackathons and bootcamps), AMAs, and other outreach efforts. We have many working partnerships and promote their efforts as well as our own. We follow the \u2018rising tide lifts all boats\u2019 philosophy and believe that open-source projects need to stand in solidarity with one another.", "hidden": false, "question": "Describe your approach to community engagement and how you plan to contribute to a collaborative and constructive funding environment.", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We plan to continue with our multi-chain explorer development to help bring greater interoperability and cohesiveness to the ecosystem as a whole. We also plan to introduce more cross-chain metadata, including Octant-specific metadata (tagging Octant projects and donors for example) when available. ", "hidden": false, "question": "How do you plan to use the funding to maximize your project's ongoing impact within the Octant ecosystem if selected?", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We participated in Epoch 4 for Octant, our first. During that time we added Octant to DAppscout, tweeted about Octant and our progress, sent out information about Octant to our 30k email subscribers, and participated in a Linkedin interview with the team. These were well received by our community.\n\n- Newsletter: https://www.blog.blockscout.com/blockscout-news-june-2024\n\n- Interview: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lets-chat-andrew-from-blockscout-octantapp-4a1df/\n\n- Octant Dapp: https://eth.blockscout.com/apps/octant\n\n- Tweets: https://x.com/blockscoutcom/status/1803835704520437915\u2028https://x.com/blockscoutcom/status/1798433800307052621", "hidden": false, "question": "What unique educational content or resources have you created for the Octant ecosystem? How has the community received these? 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They provide transparency for transaction, block, address, and contract information, as well as analytical insights into transfers, block times, gas prices, and accounts. They display essential context for additional project data, token information, and related tags.\n\nBlock explorers also support blockchain developers through API access, contract verification, and contract interaction tools. For Layer 2s, they serve not only the L2 transaction data but also provide views of the underlying L1 data so that users can get the complete picture as batches travel between layers.\n\nBlock explorers are integral infrastructure for a decentralized ecosystem. At Blockscout, we build an open-source explorer that can be used by all EVM chains. Chains are free to fork Blockscout, customize it as they see fit, and use it to support their network. Blockscout supports the Arbitrum ecosystem and will use funds from this grant to continue improving our explorer for Arbitrum-based chains.\n\n# Open-source block explorers are a vital public good\nJust as we need multiple clients for Ethereum, we need multiple explorers and tooling diversity for the Ethereum and rollup ecosystem. If (or when) an explorer is down, others are there to step in and support.\n\nThis redundancy is important, but it is not Blockscout's sole mission. Our mission is to provide a first-class, open-source, decentralized explorer for all users\u2014an explorer built by and for the community that can provide everything users, developers, and projects need to successfully explore and develop on a chain.\n\nOver the past year, we've been working hard on Blockscout. Thanks to community contributions, we've optimized Blockscout for speed while overhauling the front-end for ease of use. We've introduced tools to make smart contract verification much easier and added tagging, account functionality, marketplace features, and more.\n\nWith your help, we will continue adding tools and features to support Ethereum and the network of L2s and L3s building on top.\n\n# Open-source explorers support the entire ecosystem\n\nEVM blockchains and L2s including zk rollups and optimistic rollups need open-source explorers and tooling to support: \n- Freely available data\n- Data accuracy checks\n- Redundancy and resiliency \n- Community-driven features, customizations and innovations\n- Transparency\n- Quick, cost-effective implementation, especially for testnets\n- Small chain and niche chain support\n- Consistent multi-chain experience\n- Ongoing, fast feature development\n- Trustlessness and auditability\n\n# Blockscout is a community-driven solution\n\n![Projects](https://2383309224-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F-Lq1XoWGmy8zggj_u2fM%2Fuploads%2Fw3dTDLmPyLAPoosi5DRZ%2Fproject-logos.jpg?alt=media&token=20033b6d-ee5e-4d90-a1ce-d5db6752bcb3)\n\nBlockscout has been in production for more than 6 years. We continue to build and improve an open-source explorer used by 600+ chains in the space including most testnets + a hosted [Ethereum mainnet](https://eth.blockscout.com/) and testnet instances provided as public goods. \n\nBlockscout is used by all types of chains to quickly spin up an instance and provide transactional transparency right away for their users. We continue to make strides with our interface, indexing speed and optimization, and your help is vital to continued improvements and development.\n\n# How your funds will be used\n\n![UI](https://2383309224-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F-Lq1XoWGmy8zggj_u2fM%2Fuploads%2F6bR1Y370zhW2nECWdpqY%2Fnew-features.jpg?alt=media&token=4b4a2819-c907-474c-bf78-d25cf9a26fa3)\n\nThrough contributions from previous Gitcoin Grants Round we've been able to fully open-source the Blockscout UI, introduce MyAccount, create the DAppscout marketplace and provide ENS support! \n\nWe are continuing to work on our project roadmap for the remainder of the year to include better AA (account abstraction), DA (Data Availability), and ENS (Ethereum Name Service) support. We are also working on a multichain explorer environment designed to help tie the diverse ecosystem of L1s, L2s and L3s together.\n\nYou can learn more about additional items we are working on (or to make a suggestion or get involved), please see our [Roadmap](https://docs.blockscout.com/about/roadmap) and the [Blockscout Docs](https://docs.blockscout.com). \n\nAs we continue to decentralize the future, the tools and infrastructure supporting decentralization must also follow this pattern. We appreciate your funding to support an open-source, premium block explorer - by and for the community! \n\n## Thank You!", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "blockscout", "projectTwitter": "blockscoutcom"}, "recipient": "0x242ba6d68FfEb4a098B591B32d370F973FF882B7"}}