Installation

Blobscan is open source and you can run your own instance either locally or publically exposed on the Internet.

Requirements

In order to run Blobscan you need a virtual machine with these minimum specs:

• 2 vCPU
• 4 GB RAM
• 100 GB Hard disk

Additionally you need to connect to an Ethereum node.

Check out eip4844-devnet if you want to run your own devnet node.

Configuration

Blobscan is configured using environment variables. You can define them using export or with an .env file.

We provide a .env.example file as reference which you can use as starting point.

cp .env.example .env

Then go through the file and edit the environment variables.

In order to run Blobscan you are required to define the following ones:

• SECRET_KEY
• BEACON_NODE_ENDPOINT
• EXECUTION_NODE_ENDPOINT
• DATABASE_URL

Running Blobscan

Docker (recommended)

Docker makes it very straightforward to run Blobscan. Docker images are automatically published and a docker-compose file is provided for convenience.

Spinning up the containers:

docker compose up -d

Docker will download the images and run them in containers. After initialization, your Blobscan frontend will be available at http://localhost:3001.

Kubernetes (advanced)

We also provide Helm charts to ease deploying Blobscan into a Kubernetes cluster.

helm repo add blobscan-helm-charts https://blobscan.github.io/blobscan-helm-charts
helm install blobscan blobscan-helm-charts/blobscan

Check out the blobscan-helm-charts repository for more information.

Local environment

Check out Running locally.

Background jobs

Check out Background jobs.