Matthew Tan

Etherscan shifts Gnosis Chain access to Pro API tier only

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How would they milk it? API/usage fees? I think it is ultimately a question who benefits more. Etherscan always did Ethereum for free, and clearly would do more damage to its brand by cutting it off than it could gain from the thread of disabling it. Robinhood could be betting that their chain is s

it doesn't take millions to operate a chain in 2026 in fact you can currently offer a pretty high quality L2 for less than $500k in infra per year: sequencing+proving/RaaS: $200k RPC: $50k oracles (price feeds + VRF): $70k block explorer: $20k indexer: $15k multisig: $25k smart contract tooling:

Multiple things. A lot of NIH syndrome in Ethereum which adds to the complexity of using it and encourages lack of standardization. Mentioned some examples in the forum post. As for lack of users of the protocol, just look at the total inability to query information from the chain. This seems to ha

i have an interesting anecdote re this. when working on sourcify improvements, one contract caught my eye because i couldn't verify one rather straightforward source. use_chainlink here is a simple storage slot written in the constructor, its value is hardcoded in the source. etherscan has shown it

It is up and running. https://github.com/mrtdlgc/revertwtf-extension @blockscout first, works on @etherscan stack too. recommended: add your own RPCs and get a blockscout API key. if it fails to give you the reason on etherscan, go to blockscout page, it works there better. https://x.com/mrtdlgc/sta