diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ee78a8b19..4a4c5d43a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ The following emojis are used to highlight certain changes:
 ## [Unreleased]
 
 ### Added
+🛠 - New non variadic `NotifyNewBlock` function. This changes the `blockservice.Interface`. The new function avoids allocating a slice on each call when called with one block.
 
 * `boxo/bitswap/server`:
   * A new [`WithWantHaveReplaceSize(n)`](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/ipfs/boxo/bitswap/server/#WithWantHaveReplaceSize) option can be used with `bitswap.New` to fine-tune cost-vs-performance. It sets the maximum size of a block in bytes up to which the bitswap server will replace a WantHave with a WantBlock response. Setting this to 0 disables this WantHave replacement and means that block sizes are not read when processing WantHave requests. [#672](https://github.com/ipfs/boxo/pull/672)
diff --git a/bitswap/bitswap.go b/bitswap/bitswap.go
index 393ab96ad..74ef79014 100644
--- a/bitswap/bitswap.go
+++ b/bitswap/bitswap.go
@@ -98,6 +98,13 @@ func New(ctx context.Context, net network.BitSwapNetwork, bstore blockstore.Bloc
 	return bs
 }
 
+func (bs *Bitswap) NotifyNewBlock(ctx context.Context, blk blocks.Block) error {
+	return multierr.Combine(
+		bs.Client.NotifyNewBlock(ctx, blk),
+		bs.Server.NotifyNewBlock(ctx, blk),
+	)
+}
+
 func (bs *Bitswap) NotifyNewBlocks(ctx context.Context, blks ...blocks.Block) error {
 	return multierr.Combine(
 		bs.Client.NotifyNewBlocks(ctx, blks...),
diff --git a/bitswap/client/client.go b/bitswap/client/client.go
index e0f952d82..060d6c7f8 100644
--- a/bitswap/client/client.go
+++ b/bitswap/client/client.go
@@ -283,6 +283,16 @@ func (bs *Client) GetBlocks(ctx context.Context, keys []cid.Cid) (<-chan blocks.
 	return session.GetBlocks(ctx, keys)
 }
 
+// NotifyNewBlock announces the existence of blocks to this bitswap service.
+// Bitswap itself doesn't store new blocks. It's the caller responsibility to ensure
+// that those blocks are available in the blockstore before calling this function.
+func (bs *Client) NotifyNewBlock(ctx context.Context, blk blocks.Block) error {
+	// Call to the variadic to avoid code duplication.
+	// This is actually fine to do because no calls is virtual the compiler is able
+	// to see that the slice does not leak and the slice is stack allocated.
+	return bs.NotifyNewBlocks(ctx, blk)
+}
+
 // NotifyNewBlocks announces the existence of blocks to this bitswap service.
 // Bitswap itself doesn't store new blocks. It's the caller responsibility to ensure
 // that those blocks are available in the blockstore before calling this function.
diff --git a/bitswap/server/internal/decision/engine.go b/bitswap/server/internal/decision/engine.go
index 5e4463e33..e67c15fda 100644
--- a/bitswap/server/internal/decision/engine.go
+++ b/bitswap/server/internal/decision/engine.go
@@ -977,8 +977,9 @@ func (e *Engine) ReceivedBlocks(from peer.ID, blks []blocks.Block) {
 	}
 }
 
-// NotifyNewBlocks is called when new blocks becomes available locally, and in particular when the caller of bitswap
-// decide to store those blocks and make them available on the network.
+// NotifyNewBlocks is called when new blocks become available locally, and in
+// particular when the caller of bitswap decides to store those blocks and make
+// them available on the network.
 func (e *Engine) NotifyNewBlocks(blks []blocks.Block) {
 	if len(blks) == 0 {
 		return
diff --git a/bitswap/server/server.go b/bitswap/server/server.go
index 46d29a8fc..f3c5786a9 100644
--- a/bitswap/server/server.go
+++ b/bitswap/server/server.go
@@ -446,6 +446,17 @@ func (bs *Server) Stat() (Stat, error) {
 	return s, nil
 }
 
+// NotifyNewBlock announces the existence of block to this bitswap service. The
+// service will potentially notify its peers.
+// Bitswap itself doesn't store new blocks. It's the caller responsibility to ensure
+// that those blocks are available in the blockstore before calling this function.
+func (bs *Server) NotifyNewBlock(ctx context.Context, blk blocks.Block) error {
+	// Call to the variadic to avoid code duplication.
+	// This is actually fine to do because no calls is virtual the compiler is able
+	// to see that the slice does not leak and the slice is stack allocated.
+	return bs.NotifyNewBlocks(ctx, blk)
+}
+
 // NotifyNewBlocks announces the existence of blocks to this bitswap service. The
 // service will potentially notify its peers.
 // Bitswap itself doesn't store new blocks. It's the caller responsibility to ensure
diff --git a/blockservice/blockservice.go b/blockservice/blockservice.go
index 353be00f8..43e474cb4 100644
--- a/blockservice/blockservice.go
+++ b/blockservice/blockservice.go
@@ -176,8 +176,8 @@ func (s *blockService) AddBlock(ctx context.Context, o blocks.Block) error {
 	logger.Debugf("BlockService.BlockAdded %s", c)
 
 	if s.exchange != nil {
-		if err := s.exchange.NotifyNewBlocks(ctx, o); err != nil {
-			logger.Errorf("NotifyNewBlocks: %s", err.Error())
+		if err := s.exchange.NotifyNewBlock(ctx, o); err != nil {
+			logger.Errorf("NotifyNewBlock: %s", err.Error())
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ func getBlock(ctx context.Context, c cid.Cid, bs BlockService, fetchFactory func
 		return nil, err
 	}
 	if ex := bs.Exchange(); ex != nil {
-		err = ex.NotifyNewBlocks(ctx, blk)
+		err = ex.NotifyNewBlock(ctx, blk)
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, err
 		}
@@ -364,7 +364,6 @@ func getBlocks(ctx context.Context, ks []cid.Cid, blockservice BlockService, fet
 		}
 
 		ex := blockservice.Exchange()
-		var cache [1]blocks.Block // preallocate once for all iterations
 		for {
 			var b blocks.Block
 			select {
@@ -386,13 +385,11 @@ func getBlocks(ctx context.Context, ks []cid.Cid, blockservice BlockService, fet
 
 			if ex != nil {
 				// inform the exchange that the blocks are available
-				cache[0] = b
-				err = ex.NotifyNewBlocks(ctx, cache[:]...)
+				err = ex.NotifyNewBlock(ctx, b)
 				if err != nil {
 					logger.Errorf("could not tell the exchange about new blocks: %s", err)
 					return
 				}
-				cache[0] = nil // early gc
 			}
 
 			select {
diff --git a/blockservice/blockservice_test.go b/blockservice/blockservice_test.go
index 29350ff37..f1a64de80 100644
--- a/blockservice/blockservice_test.go
+++ b/blockservice/blockservice_test.go
@@ -205,6 +205,11 @@ type notifyCountingExchange struct {
 	notifyCount int
 }
 
+func (n *notifyCountingExchange) NotifyNewBlock(ctx context.Context, blocks blocks.Block) error {
+	n.notifyCount++
+	return n.Interface.NotifyNewBlock(ctx, blocks)
+}
+
 func (n *notifyCountingExchange) NotifyNewBlocks(ctx context.Context, blocks ...blocks.Block) error {
 	n.notifyCount += len(blocks)
 	return n.Interface.NotifyNewBlocks(ctx, blocks...)
@@ -312,6 +317,10 @@ func (f *fakeIsNewSessionCreateExchange) NewSession(context.Context) exchange.Fe
 	return f.ses
 }
 
+func (*fakeIsNewSessionCreateExchange) NotifyNewBlock(context.Context, blocks.Block) error {
+	return nil
+}
+
 func (*fakeIsNewSessionCreateExchange) NotifyNewBlocks(context.Context, ...blocks.Block) error {
 	return nil
 }
diff --git a/exchange/interface.go b/exchange/interface.go
index 3ae174d5c..7d32960a5 100644
--- a/exchange/interface.go
+++ b/exchange/interface.go
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ import (
 type Interface interface { // type Exchanger interface
 	Fetcher
 
+	// NotifyNewBlock tells the exchange that a new block is available and can be served.
+	NotifyNewBlock(ctx context.Context, blocks blocks.Block) error
 	// NotifyNewBlocks tells the exchange that new blocks are available and can be served.
 	NotifyNewBlocks(ctx context.Context, blocks ...blocks.Block) error
 
diff --git a/exchange/offline/offline.go b/exchange/offline/offline.go
index f3590893e..1e8cdd2fe 100644
--- a/exchange/offline/offline.go
+++ b/exchange/offline/offline.go
@@ -34,6 +34,12 @@ func (e *offlineExchange) GetBlock(ctx context.Context, k cid.Cid) (blocks.Block
 	return blk, err
 }
 
+// NotifyNewBlock tells the exchange that a new block is available and can be served.
+func (e *offlineExchange) NotifyNewBlock(ctx context.Context, block blocks.Block) error {
+	// as an offline exchange we have nothing to do
+	return nil
+}
+
 // NotifyNewBlocks tells the exchange that new blocks are available and can be served.
 func (e *offlineExchange) NotifyNewBlocks(ctx context.Context, blocks ...blocks.Block) error {
 	// as an offline exchange we have nothing to do