Skip to content

This PR updates the “Verifying Your Contract” section in the Foundry deployment guide. Previously, the documentation referenced Etherscan verification using --etherscan-api-key while targeting the Ink Sepolia network, which uses Blockscout instead. #609

@HarleyQeen

Description

@HarleyQeen

This PR updates the “Verifying Your Contract” section in the Foundry deployment guide. Previously, the documentation referenced Etherscan verification using --etherscan-api-key while targeting the Ink Sepolia network, which uses Blockscout instead.

This caused confusion and verification failures when developers attempted to verify contracts on Ink.

Changes:

Replaced all mentions of Etherscan with Blockscout.

Updated the example forge verify-contract command to use the proper Blockscout verifier flags: forge verify-contract <DEPLOYED_CONTRACT_ADDRESS> src/InkContract.sol:InkContract
--chain-id 763373
--verifier blockscout
--verifier-url https://explorer-sepolia.inkonchain.com/api
--verifier-api-key $BLOCKSCOUT_API_KEY

Clarified that the Ink Sepolia network is verified through Blockscout, not Etherscan.

Aligned environment variable names (INKSEPOLIA_RPC_URL instead of RPC_URL) for consistency with Foundry profiles.

Why:

Etherscan and Blockscout use different APIs and are not interchangeable. Ink’s Sepolia network is powered by Blockscout, so verification must target its API endpoint (https://explorer-sepolia.inkonchain.com/api). Without this fix, forge verify-contract fails with an “unsupported chain” error.

Originally posted by @HarleyQeen in #572

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Labels

    No labels
    No labels

    Type

    No type
    No fields configured for issues without a type.

    Projects

    No projects

    Milestone

    No milestone

    Relationships

    None yet

    Development

    No branches or pull requests

    Issue actions