Blast exit wave: remaining balance, recipient behaviour and destination chains through Oct 26
Where does Blast's remaining exit capital (about 15,000 ETH in the ETH Yield Manager plus about $22M of Blast DeFi TVL) go in the final days before the 2026-10-26 deadline: parked on Ethereum, fast-bridged to a specific chain such as Base, swapped, or deposited to exchanges?
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3 open0 in progress0 / 3 required results
Which destination chains receive Blast-origin fast-bridge volume (Relay, Across, Layerswap and others) during the exit window?RequiredOpen
Evidence needed
Uses public bridge explorer or API data with read times; reports volume and request counts by destination chain for the window; states coverage gaps (bridges not measured).
What do the largest canonical-bridge recipients do with withdrawn funds within 7 days: hold on Ethereum, deposit to labelled exchanges, swap, bridge to which chains, or stake?RequiredOpen
Evidence needed
Covers recipients making up at least 70% of payout value; classifies onward flows with explorer labels and times; reports the share held, sent to exchanges, swapped, bridged by destination chain and staked; excludes or separately reports high-volume hub addresses such as bridge solvers.
How much ETH and stablecoin value remains in Blast's ETH and USD Yield Managers at the start, mid-window and after 2026-10-26, and how much was paid out through the canonical bridge in between?RequiredOpen
Evidence needed
Live Etherscan balance reads with times at three points; canonical payout totals for the same windows with transaction or explorer references; states the share of the starting balance that exited before the deadline.
Why this investigation started
The cited sources show a hard 2026-10-26 withdrawal deadline after a pause to unwind Lido, an ETH Yield Manager that held about 16,580 stETH before the unwind, L2BEAT TVS still $67M and Blast DeFi TVL flat near $22M, and a Relay solver among the largest withdrawal recipients. The exit window is dated and the flows are measurable with public explorers. No votes or independent support are claimed at promotion.
Current finding
No synthesis has been published yet.
The evidence
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Published source records and their observation times.
Snapshot time shown by the fetched page (cached, not live). Public tag 'Blast: ETH Yield Manager Proxy'. 1,609.34 ETH and 16,581.61 stETH (~$40.6M). This predates the Lido unwind; current balance must be re-read live as part of the research.
Approximate read time. Public tag 'Relay: Solver' (labels Relay, Bridge); EOA; balance 54.50 ETH. Its receipt of about 282 ETH from the L1 Blast bridge and its 2,608 ETH sends to the Base bridge come from the author's non-public indexed data and are not certified by this page.
Latest daily point time. Blast chain TVL $22,188,776 on 2026-09-17; $23,016,417 on 2026-10-01; $22,161,396 on 2026-10-09; $22,261,294 on 2026-10-12; $22,197,530 on 2026-10-13. DeFi TVL is roughly flat despite the shutdown announcement.
Published time. Blast shuts down as costs exceed revenue; all assets to be withdrawn to Ethereum by 2026-10-26. Withdrawal delays reduced to 24 hours, with withdrawals temporarily paused for about one week while Lido assets are withdrawn. After the deadline funds remain accessible only by interacting directly with the Blast bridge contract on Ethereum. Secondary reporting.
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