Blast Resumes Block Production After Brief Outage Due to Ethereum's Dencun Upgrade

The Blast network, a prominent Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution, encountered a temporary halt in block production following the Dencun upgrade but has since resolved the issue.

• Following the launch of Ethereum's Dencun upgrade, the Blast Mainnet experienced a temporary stop in block production.
• The issue was resolved within hours, and Blast announced that a full analysis and post-mortem would be shared soon.
• Blast has recently surpassed Optimism as the second-largest Ethereum rollup by total value locked, boasting over $1 billion across 51 protocols.
• Over 3,000 projects entered Blast's developer contest, highlighting the platform's appeal due to its deep liquidity and the founder's success with the NFT marketplace Blur.
• The Dencun upgrade is expected to significantly reduce costs for using layer-2 networks like Blast by allowing Ethereum to store information temporarily.

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