Blast to Shut Down, Sets Oct 26 Deadline for Standard Withdrawals

A Layer 2 choosing to shut down rather than subsidise infrastructure is a notable data point for the rollup thesis: sequencer and state-sync costs are not trivial, and fee revenue at this scale evidently did not cover them. The unwind mechanics matter more than the announcement itself — assets must first exit Lido before user withdrawals reopen, so the timeline is partly outside the team's direct control. The open question is whether the compressed withdrawal window is honoured, and whether other thinly used L2s face the same arithmetic.