{"id":9867,"date":"2024-01-17T10:19:53","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T08:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/blast-l2-protocol-launches-testnet-and-developer-competition\/"},"modified":"2024-01-17T10:19:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T08:19:53","slug":"blast-l2-protocol-launches-testnet-and-developer-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/blast-l2-protocol-launches-testnet-and-developer-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast L2 Protocol Launches Testnet and Developer Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On January 16, the second-layer solution Blast launched its test network, concurrently initiating a developer competition.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Blast Testnet is OFFICIALLY LIVE<\/p>\n<p>With it, the Blast BIG BANG competition officially begins.<\/p>\n<p>Dapps can compete to get in front of 100k users &#038; $1.3B in TVL, connect with top investors, and earn the Blast Airdrop. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Cajnmtxtd3\">pic.twitter.com\/Cajnmtxtd3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Blast (@Blast_L2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Blast_L2\/status\/1747321109492724207?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The network&#8217;s total value locked exceeded $1.3 billion with 103,000 active wallets. Blast has become one of the largest L2 protocols, despite its invitation-only system.<\/p>\n<p>The Big Bang competition aims to attract new developers to the project. From January 17 to February 17, teams can compete for a special airdrop.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the winning applications will be integrated into the main Blast network at launch.<\/p>\n<p>The competition will be judged by the project&#8217;s core developers and other representatives of the crypto industry.<\/p>\n<p>Launched on November 22, Blast is a second-layer network based on Ethereum, offering a passive income of 4-5% annually. However, the protocol has so far lacked any infrastructure beyond an inter-network contract.<\/p>\n<p>Following the launch, Blast&#8217;s founder, under the pseudonym Pacman, addressed community concerns and explained the method of achieving high returns on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, amid the project&#8217;s announcement and listing on the cryptocurrency exchange Binance, the token of the NFT marketplace Blur (BLUR), also founded by the co-founder of the farming service, surged by 88%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 16, the second-layer solution Blast launched its test network, concurrently initiating a developer competition. The Blast Testnet is OFFICIALLY LIVE With it, the Blast BIG BANG competition officially begins. Dapps can compete to get in front of 100k users &#038; $1.3B in TVL, connect with top investors, and earn the Blast Airdrop. pic.twitter.com\/Cajnmtxtd3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1270,1179],"class_list":["post-9867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-blast","tag-layer-2-solutions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"36","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}