The DA Layer Mirage: Why 99% of Rollups Don't Need Dedicated Data Availability
Over the past seven days, Arbitrum One processed 1.2 million transactions....
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MaxFox
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2026-07-17
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Event Calendar
202628
03
unlock
Arbitrum Token Unlock
92 million ARB released
22
03
unlock
Optimism Unlock
Circulating supply increases by about 2%
10
05
upgrade
Ethereum Pectra Upgrade
Raises validator limit and account abstraction
15
04
halving
Bitcoin Halving
Block reward reduced to 3.125 BTC
12
05
halving
BCH Halving
Block reward halving event
18
03
unlock
Sui Token Unlock
Team and early investor shares released
30
04
upgrade
Celestia Mainnet Upgrade
Improves data availability sampling efficiency
08
04
upgrade
Solana Firedancer
Independent validator client goes live on mainnet
Gas Tracker
Ethereum
28 Gwei
BNB Chain
3 Gwei
Polygon
42 Gwei
Arbitrum
0.5 Gwei
Optimism
0.3 Gwei
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Bitcoin
BTC
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Ethereum
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$1,844.21 |
| 1 |
Solana
SOL
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$75.08 |
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BNB Chain
BNB
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XRP Ledger
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$0.0722 |
| 1 |
Cardano
ADA
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$0.1643 |
| 1 |
Avalanche
AVAX
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$6.54 |
| 1 |
Polkadot
DOT
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$0.8307 |
| 1 |
Chainlink
LINK
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$8.28 |
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