Built so deposits earn while they sit
Blast is an Ethereum layer two whose defining choice is native yield on deposited ETH and stablecoins, plus gas revenue shared back to applications. It rewards teams who can convert incentives into retention.
BLAST right now.
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What Blast is actually for.
Blast is an optimistic rollup with one idea that separates it from its neighbors. Balances held on the chain are designed to earn a base yield rather than sit idle, sourced from staking and treasury style returns on the assets bridged in. Applications can also receive a share of the gas their users spend, turning fee flow into a revenue line for builders instead of a cost center. Everything else is familiar EVM territory, so the migration cost for a Solidity team is low.
Usage has been dominated by DeFi and by trading products. Perpetual venues, lending, yield routers, vaults and a steady rotation of incentive driven launches make up the core, alongside a memecoin and consumer layer that spikes hard and cools fast. The gas sharing model attracts teams whose unit economics are tight, because a live application earns from its own traffic. Yield bearing balances also change product design, since a wallet sitting in your app is not dead capital, which makes fee models workable that would fail elsewhere.
The culture is where founders get caught out. Blast launched through an aggressive points and referral campaign, and that shaped who arrived. This is a fast, mercenary, extremely online audience that will show up in volume for an incentive and leave the moment the incentive changes. It is a genuinely useful audience for a launch, because reach is cheap here compared with quieter chains, and a genuinely dangerous one for a business plan, because your metrics will look better than your retention does.
What the BLAST token actually does.
The mechanics matter to you because the network token is the thing your own token competes with for the same attention and the same balance sheet.
Gas is paid in ETH
Transactions on Blast are paid in ETH like most Ethereum rollups. BLAST is not the fee asset, a distinction worth stating plainly in your own documentation to avoid confusing new users.
Governance
BLAST is positioned as the governance token for the network, giving holders influence over protocol direction and over the programs that distribute incentives to applications and users.
Incentive distribution
Much of the token's role has been distribution itself, rewarding early users, bridged deposits and developers through points style programs that later converted into allocations.
Application alignment
Builders receive allocations tied to the activity they bring, which makes the token a mechanism for buying growth as much as a purely governance instrument.
Blast distributed a large portion of supply to users and developers through points programs rather than to a private sale audience first, which produced very wide initial ownership and correspondingly heavy early selling. Remaining allocations vest to core contributors, investors and ongoing ecosystem programs. For a founder the important dynamic is not the schedule itself but what it created, which is a holder base that arrived for a distribution event, is comfortable rotating, and treats new tokens on the chain as the next round of the same game.
That sets the terms for your own launch. Points and airdrop mechanics work extremely well here at acquiring wallets and extremely badly at keeping them, so the interesting design question is what happens the day after. Projects that hold up tend to have real fee revenue, a product people would use unincentivized, and a token that captures something. Projects that do not tend to post enormous first week numbers and quietly disappear. Plan the second campaign before you run the first.
Who you are actually launching to.
The single most useful question about any chain, and the one most founders answer last.
Yield rotators
Users who move capital wherever the incentives are richest and track programs closely. They arrive fast, they are honest about their motives, and they do not stay by default.
Thin margin DeFi builders
Teams attracted by gas revenue sharing and native yield, because both change what a viable fee model looks like for a small application with modest volume.
The degen consumer crowd
A very online audience for memecoins, mints and social products, capable of generating real volume in short bursts and equally capable of ignoring you entirely.
Good fit for
What to watch
- The audience is mercenary by construction. Acquisition is easy and retention is brutal, so a launch judged on first week wallet counts will flatter you into building entirely the wrong roadmap.
- Blast carries reputational baggage from how it launched. Some investors and partners still associate the chain with the points meta, and you may have to answer for that choice in rooms outside crypto.
- Native yield is not free money. It depends on underlying sources continuing to perform and on the chain's own mechanics, so treat it as a feature with dependencies rather than as a guaranteed rate.
Launching on Blast with Orca Web3.
The deliverables are the same everywhere. What changes per chain is everything about how they are made.
Retention design, not just launch design
We plan the campaign in two halves: the incentive phase that brings wallets in, and the product and communications work that gives people a reason to stay once rewards normalize.
Honest metric framing
We help you report numbers that mean something, separating incentivized activity from organic usage, so that your team and your investors are looking at the same version of reality.
Positioning past the meta
We build brand and narrative that would survive on any chain, because a project defined entirely by a points campaign has nothing left the week the campaign ends.
Token launch on Blast
Positioning, identity, litepaper, tokenomics design, launch site and TGE campaign.
RWA issuance
Institutional grade brand and disclosure aware communications for tokenized assets.
dApp front end
Wallet flows, chain switching and transaction states built for this network's tooling.
Launching on Blast, answered.
Is native yield actually a reason to build on Blast?
It can be, for specific product types. If your application holds user balances, those balances earning by default changes your fee model, because you can charge less or share yield rather than extracting from principal. Combined with gas revenue sharing, a small application can be viable at a scale that would not work on a chain where every transaction is pure cost. The caveat is that the yield comes from underlying sources that vary, so build your model with room for it to be materially lower than it is today.
Will a points campaign work for our launch?
It will work at bringing people in. That part is close to solved on this chain, and the audience knows the format better than you do. The difficulty is everything after. Farming behavior is sophisticated, sybil resistance is a real cost, and the wallets you acquire are optimizing for the next program before yours ends. Run one if it fits, but design the conversion path first: what the user does after the rewards, why they would pay, and what the product offers someone who never farmed at all.
Does the chain's reputation hurt us?
Sometimes, in specific rooms. Blast's launch was polarizing and a portion of the industry formed a lasting view of it. Inside the chain's own audience this is irrelevant. Outside it, with institutional partners, exchanges or non crypto brands, you may be asked why you chose it, so have a real answer about the technical features rather than about the distribution. Multi chain deployment is also common, which lets you use Blast for growth without making it your entire identity.
What does Orca handle for a Blast launch?
Brand, naming, narrative, the litepaper and token presentation, launch site, application front end, and the campaign structure including how a points or rewards program gets communicated. We do not deploy or audit contracts and we do not run market making. Our most useful contribution here is usually restraint. The chain makes it very easy to buy a big launch, and the difference between projects that last and projects that spike is nearly always what was built to catch those users.
Chains a project weighing Blast usually looks at too.
Building on Blast?
Bring us the project and the date. We will tell you what it takes, whether Blast is the right room for it, and what we would do differently if it is not.
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