Blast (BLAST): D-Score 27/100 — Centralized Leaning

BlockIndex D-Score: 27/100 (Centralized Leaning). Blast (BLAST) is a Layer 2 cryptocurrency using Other consensus. Blast: Ethereum Layer‑2 rollup delivering native L2 yield for ETH and USDB plus developer revenue sharing.

Source: https://blockindex.ai/coin/blast · Data by BlockIndex.AI · Updated 2026-06-19

D-Score breakdown (0-100, higher means more decentralized)
Component: Score: Overall D-Score: 27: Node distribution: 0: Initial distribution: 0: Governance: 20: Age and history: 7: Autonomy: 0: Key facts
- Layer: Layer 2
- Consensus: Other (N/A)
- Launch: Airdrop
- Founder: Tieshun Roquerre (Pacman)
- VC funded: No
- Max supply: 100,000,000,000
- Circulating: 63,709,516,474 (63.7%)

Market data (as of 2026-06-19)
- Price: $0
- Market cap: $18.51M
- 24h volume: $2.4M
- 24h change: -4.38% · 7d change: -11.95%

About
Blast (BLAST) is an Ethereum Layer-2 optimistic rollup designed to make on-chain yield a native property of the layer while providing developer-centric monetization tools. The protocol’s core propositions, as documented in the supplied materials, include native rebasing yield for ETH holdings on the L2 (sourced from staked L1 ETH flows), yield for the native stablecoin USDB (sourced via MakerDAO’s on‑chain T‑Bill/RWA mechanisms), and a gas revenue‑sharing model that lets dapp developers capture a portion of fee revenue. The whitepaper and documentation emphasize a mobile‑first, developer‑first approach, with incentive programs and airdrops aimed at bootstrapping dapp activity and liquidity. BLAST is described in public market pages and platform excerpts as the governance token for the Blast L2, used for on‑chain governance and protocol participation.

Technically, Blast is presented as an L2 optimistic rollup on Ethereum rather than a simple ERC‑20 token on L1. The available sources describe the architecture at a high level—an optimistic rollup security model with explicit integration pathways to L1 staking yield and RWA (real world asset) yield sources for stablecoins—while low‑level protocol specifics (consensus parameters, block timing, exact TPS metrics, chain IDs) are not provided in the supplied excerpts. The documentation highlights building blocks for applications that want to capture fee revenue and offer differentiated economics (rebasing yield + developer revenue sharing). The combined sources also document a mobile app presence (app.blast.io) and developer documentation (docs.blast.io), but do not include an authoritative GitHub link or full protocol specification in the supplied text.

From a tokenomics and market perspective, BLAST has a fixed maximum supply of 100,000,000,000 tokens and a reported circulating supply of roughly 52,300,404,271 BLAST (≈52.30% circulating) per the market snapshots included in the dataset. The sources include price and market‑data snapshots (example: price ≈ $0.000705, market cap ≈ $36.91M, 24h volume ≈ $3.56M, ATH $0.5223 on 2024‑06‑26 per CoinMarketCap excerpt). The supplied materials do not include a definitive premine or allocation breakdown in a format that permits extraction of an explicit PIP or premine percentage, and the DScore extraction flagged premine/PIP as unknown. The protocol runs airdrops and incentive programs to attract builders and users; those activities are documented but not enumerated with full allocation details in the provided extracts.

Governance is explicitly described as token‑holder driven: multiple authoritative sources in the dataset state that BLAST token holders can participate in a DAO governance structure. The combined extraction therefore records governance as on‑chain and token‑based, and marks the project as DAO‑governed in the available summaries. Organizational and legal details (a controlling company or foundation, formal CEO, or registered legal entity) are not provided in the supplied snippets, and so the record treats company/CEO fields conservatively. Several essential DSCORE inputs (node counts, premine breakdowns, launch date, and fine‑grained distribution percentages) were missing from the supplied extracts; those fields remain unvalidated and are flagged as null in this summary pending further primary‑source or NodeTracker inputs.

Links
- Website: https://blast.io/en
- Whitepaper: https://docs.blast.io/about-blast
- GitHub: N/A

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