), will shut down its website, powered by Etherscan's Explorer-as-a-Service toolkit, on November 30. The Snowtrace team clarified that only its explorer powered by Etherscan will be shut down., Snowtrace users are required to save their backup information, such as private name tags and contact verification details, before the said date. While the team did not explicitly state the reason for shutting down the explorer, some have pointed to Etherscan's service fees for its EaaS toolkit.
Ohtama"EtherScan is a very good product, but smart contract verification is something that needs to be decentralised. Regulators and other are not going to be kosher with, how do you check this? The source code is hosted by a private company in Malaysia"that the protocol is"moving onto something better" and is"absolutely not" cease operations.