Blast

Cryptocurrencies · Blockchain & Crypto

Overview

Blast is an Ethereum layer-2 network whose distinguishing feature is native yield paid on bridged ether and stablecoins. Assets deposited into the rollup are staked or lent on the base layer so that balances grow automatically for holders. The chain launched with a large deposit campaign and hosts DeFi, gaming and social applications.

Funding and backers

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Momentum
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in the news
Last sign of life
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The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
2023 Founded
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Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
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55 portfolio companies: Modal, Snorkel AI, Warp Sciences and 52 more

News

News Boing Boing 3 months ago
A new alloy turned up in a grain of sand from Hiroshima Bay
A new alloy turned up in a grain of sand from Hiroshima Bay
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News fabraix.com 4 months ago
Bounding the Blast Radius: A Survey of Prompt-Injection Defenses for LLM Agents
Prompt injection has no known general solution. We organize the defense landscape into a four-layer taxonomy, analyze the documented failure mode of each layer, and argue for composing defenses under explicit cost and latency budgets, then verifying the r
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News nejm.org 2 years ago
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News Open Culture 2 years ago
This 392-Year-Old Bonsai Tree Survived the Hiroshima Atomic Blast & Still Flourishes Today: The Power of Resilience
Image by Sage Ross, via Wikimedia CommonsThe beautiful bonsai tree pictured above--let's call it the Yamaki Pine Bonsai--began its journey through the world back in 1625.
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