what's Blobscan?

Blobscan is the pioneering blockchain explorer for Ethereum's EIP-4844 blob transactions, introduced via proto-danksharding to enhance data availability. It offers a user-friendly web interface to navigate, search, visualize, and index blob data across Ethereum mainnet and compatible L2 chains. Key features include blob decoding, transaction details, block explorers, and APIs for developers to query live and historical blob data. To combat centralization risks in blob storage, Blobscan integrates with IPFS for decentralized archiving and community node support. It provides metrics on blob usage, throughput, and time-series insights, ensuring public goods infrastructure remains accessible as Ethereum scales, with growing daily blob volumes archived for research and verification.

Blobscan integrates with Ethereum MCP, providing live blob data for natural language queries, similar to Etherscan.