#blast - the daily grind

BREAKING

Oct 4Blast Pulled In $2 Billion Before It Even Had a Chain. Now It's Switching the Chain Off Because It Can't Cover the Bills●Oct 3Someone Stole Less Than $1,000 From MetaMask's Validators. MetaMask Is Pulling $1.4 Billion of ETH Out of Staking Because of It●Oct 2The SEC Just Told Fund Managers They Can Hold Your Crypto Keys Themselves. The Catch: Every Quarter They Have to Write Down That Nobody Else Will●Oct 1Two Appeals Courts Just Said Kalshi Sports Bets Are Gambling. The CFTC, Run by One Man, Is Rewriting the Dictionary So They Aren't.●Sep 30Two Weeks After Its Engineers Were Charged Over HYPE Perps, Robinhood Says It Will Sell HYPE Perps to Every American●Sep 29Senate Investigators Checked 846 Sanctioned Iran Wallets. 84% of Them Ran on Tether●Sep 2853 Memecoins on Robinhood Chain Turned Out to Be One Crew. They Took $18.4M, and Each Rug Paid for the Next●Sep 27KelpDAO Is Suing LayerZero for the $292M Hack. Its Evidence: LayerZero Signed Off on the Exact Setup That Got Drained●Sep 26The SEC Is About to Be Two People. 'Crypto Mom' Hester Peirce Just Quit, and Nobody Has Been Nominated to Replace Her●Sep 25Hackers Took $351.6M From Bitget Without Stealing a Single Private Key. They Forged the Transfer Orders and Bitget's Own Signing Machines Approved Them●Oct 4Blast Pulled In $2 Billion Before It Even Had a Chain. Now It's Switching the Chain Off Because It Can't Cover the Bills●Oct 3Someone Stole Less Than $1,000 From MetaMask's Validators. MetaMask Is Pulling $1.4 Billion of ETH Out of Staking Because of It●Oct 2The SEC Just Told Fund Managers They Can Hold Your Crypto Keys Themselves. The Catch: Every Quarter They Have to Write Down That Nobody Else Will●Oct 1Two Appeals Courts Just Said Kalshi Sports Bets Are Gambling. The CFTC, Run by One Man, Is Rewriting the Dictionary So They Aren't.●Sep 30Two Weeks After Its Engineers Were Charged Over HYPE Perps, Robinhood Says It Will Sell HYPE Perps to Every American●Sep 29Senate Investigators Checked 846 Sanctioned Iran Wallets. 84% of Them Ran on Tether●Sep 2853 Memecoins on Robinhood Chain Turned Out to Be One Crew. They Took $18.4M, and Each Rug Paid for the Next●Sep 27KelpDAO Is Suing LayerZero for the $292M Hack. Its Evidence: LayerZero Signed Off on the Exact Setup That Got Drained●Sep 26The SEC Is About to Be Two People. 'Crypto Mom' Hester Peirce Just Quit, and Nobody Has Been Nominated to Replace Her●Sep 25Hackers Took $351.6M From Bitget Without Stealing a Single Private Key. They Forged the Transfer Orders and Bitget's Own Signing Machines Approved Them●

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Blast Pulled In $2 Billion Before It Even Had a Chain. Now It's Switching the Chain Off Because It Can't Cover the Bills

Oct 4, 2026 · 4 min read

Blast, the Ethereum layer 2 from Blur founder Pacman that attracted around $2 billion in deposits before its mainnet existed, says it will shut down because running the chain costs more than it earns. Users have until October 26 to withdraw through the normal interface. TVL is down to roughly $63-65 million, and the BLAST token fell about 47% on the news, leaving it around 98-99% below its peak.