Thoughts from EthCC Brussels - Most chain teams don’t have the slightest idea of why a block explorer exists. They take it for granted, so when it comes to choose their own, they think ‘they could make it better and unique’. They don’t realize that nobody is going to develop on your chain if the explorer has a UI, UX and feature set different from the industry standard. - The chain teams that know why they need a specific block explorers are the ones that know best about what their scope and focus is, and they’ll most likely succeed. - Infra providers and analytics tools have way too low of a media and conference coverage. That’s because they don’t pay media outlets or conference organizers, or at least not as much as super-high-growth chain teams with loads of cash - Conferences are becoming too many, both around the world and during blockchain weeks: participation is so sparse that talks and panels see very low participation - we’re talking to ourselves, and no one is listening, except for when the big guys talk - Even though we made headlines with the Snowtrace transition back in November, 99% of the people don’t know that Etherscan is getting paid 6 figures to do the explorer, and some don’t even know that chains pay for explorers! But they all know about a new token coming.. - People in the Ethereum community don’t have the slightest idea about what’s happening outside - Base is really, really, really popular - No one knows anything about anything, really. It’s just too much everywhere, if you know what I mean. But it’s because we’re all just trying to make it work.