Optimism sharks lost $293,000 in a week, 20 of 24 in the red, yet bought $1.41 million of WLD
DeepSea's PnL table shows a bad week for big wallets on OP Mainnet. In the last day they bought more WLD than they sold and sold more OP than they bought.
One shark sold $2.59 million of LYK. The token's Arbitrum pool holds $396
DeepSea logged big shark selling in two layer 2 tokens, LayerK's LYK and Linea's LINEA. LYK's public markets were far too small to absorb what was counted.
Base now aims for five blocks a second. What does the Denim upgrade break for apps?
Base's Denim upgrade was set to switch mainnet from one block every 2 seconds to one every 200 milliseconds on November 5. Anything that counts blocks to measure time now runs 10 times faster.
Sharks bought $10.25 million of WLD on Optimism in a day while its price fell 4%
Thirteen big wallets made 240 WLD trades in 24 hours and net bought about $4.31 million. WLD itself fell 4% on CoinGecko.
Shark wallets sold $7.85 million of the USD₮0 dollar token on Optimism, a day after buying it
A day ago shark wallets were buying USD₮0 on Optimism. DeepSea's feed now shows them net sellers of almost $3 million, while OP selling kept going.
Sharks bought $850,000 of Arbitrum's ARB in a day. Whales added $4.59 million in a week
DeepSea's data shows big wallets buying ARB on Arbitrum while $11.6 million more ARB left exchanges than arrived over seven days. Two stock tokens also drew shark money.
Shark wallets sold $3.55 million of Optimism's OP in a day and bought just $486,000
DeepSea's live feed shows big wallets selling Optimism's token while still parking dollars on the chain. On Berachain, a heavy seller of USD₮0 turned buyer in the last hour.
Sharks bought $3.05 million of WLD on Optimism in a day. One Monad wallet traded $15.7 million
DeepSea's live feed shows big wallets loading up on USD₮0 and WLD on Optimism, one wallet churning $15.7 million on Monad and a single $10 million Aave USDC exit on Arbitrum.
MegaETH's MEGA is down 73% since launch. Who really got the 15% 'community' share?
MegaETH launched MEGA on April 30, 2026, after hitting the first of four network milestones. At least a third of its 15% community allocation was sold at auction, MegaETH has not said how much was given away free, and 53% of supply still waits on future milestones.
What is a gas fee? How Ethereum fees work, who gets paid and why they spike
A gas fee is what you pay Ethereum to run a transaction: gas used times the base fee plus an optional tip. The base fee is burned, the tip goes to the validator, and the price can climb 12.5% a block when the network gets busy.
Compound's fourth retreat in a month: a vote to pull 90 ETH and 42,000 USDC off Unichain
A Compound DAO vote closing November 3, with no votes against so far, would send reserves from its deprecated Unichain markets back to Ethereum. A bigger 534,530 USDT withdrawal from Polygon was filed and canceled within an hour.
Arbitrum vote could unfreeze Stylus Rust contracts, but each needs an audit and sign-off
New Stylus contracts on Arbitrum have been frozen since October 2 over fears of AI-assisted attacks. A DAO poll closing November 5 weighs a way back: every new program would need an auditor's pass and an Arbitrum Foundation signature.
What is BNB Chain? Three chains, 21 block makers and 0.45-second blocks
BNB Chain is three blockchains that all run on BNB: BNB Smart Chain (BSC) for apps, the cheaper layer 2 opBNB and the storage network Greenfield. Its speed comes from a small club: just 21 validators make BSC's blocks at any one time.
What is a layer 2? Rollups, proofs and why no big L2 is Stage 2 yet
A layer 2 is a separate blockchain that runs transactions cheaply and settles them on Ethereum, using fraud proofs or validity proofs to show its state is correct. L2BEAT tracks about $30 billion in L2s, and its Stages show how much control each team still holds.
Ethereum roadmap explained: Pectra, Fusaka and why Glamsterdam has no date
Ethereum upgrades through named hard forks. Pectra went live on May 7, 2025, and Fusaka on December 3, 2025. Glamsterdam, the next one, is live on the Sepolia testnet but was pulled from Hoodi in October 2026, and as of November 2, 2026, it has no mainnet date.
What is Base? How Coinbase's $14.7B layer 2 works and who can change it
Base is an Ethereum layer 2, an optimistic rollup built with the OP Stack, and the biggest by value: about $14.7 billion secured as of November 2, 2026, per L2BEAT. It runs transactions cheaply, posts the data to Ethereum, and a Coinbase multisig holds one of its two upgrade keys.
Base's next upgrade makes blocks 10 times faster. The code says November 5
Coinbase's layer 2 switched on its Cobalt upgrade on September 30. Next is Denim, which cuts block times from 2 seconds to 200 milliseconds and could break contracts that count time in blocks. Base's code sets November 5, 1:00 p.m. ET, though Base still calls November only a target.
Lisk shuts its chain October 31 and burns a quarter of LSK. Tokens left behind are lost
Lisk set October 31, 2026, as the last day of its own blockchain and its DAO. It is burning 100 million LSK, a quarter of supply, and is turning the token into a loyalty reward on Ethereum. Anything not bridged out in time is lost, the project says.
Pudgy Penguins' owner shuts Abstract after losing tens of millions. Exit by December 15
Igloo says two years of funding its consumer blockchain cost it tens of millions of dollars without finding product-market fit. Users must bridge out by December 15 or lose access, and the company is going back to the penguins.