636,000 blocks in 24 hours; the latest block has 3 transactions.

At 08:41 this morning, I queried the official RPC again: the chain ID is still 0x1863d, 99901—unchanged. The latest block is 5,047,292, compared with 4,410,815 at the same time yesterday. That’s an increase of about 636,000 blocks in 24 hours, or roughly 7.3 blocks per second and 136 milliseconds per block—noticeably slower than yesterday’s 9.2 blocks per second and 109 milliseconds. But I ran a live 20-second test: 226 blocks, about 102 milliseconds per block, still in line with the 100-millisecond target. The slowdown is in the daily average, not right now.

The block is still empty. The latest block has 3 transactions, with timestamps only 1 second apart. The chain is running, but the receiver still hasn’t caught up.

The bridge still won’t open on day three. Today it failed in a different way: the entire official site is returning 429s—the bridge, the browser, the homepage, all 429s. 429s the day before yesterday, a TLS connection followed by an empty server response yesterday, and rate limits across the whole site today. Three days, three different failures, one conclusion: the route for bridging HYPE from HyperEVM is still down this morning. If you can’t bridge over, don’t expect to do anything on the other side.

We finally have an official word on the NFT front: on November 10, Elysium announced a partnership with OpenSea to issue 8,888 commemorative NFTs, and minting is now complete. The schedule mentioned two NFTs at 21:00 but didn’t name the project, so I can’t match them up—but the official NFT drop itself has happened. As for the token slated for 21:30, it’s day three and there’s still no sign of it on any official channel.

The data for Ascend’s second day hasn’t been released. The only figures I can find are the ones from day one, so I won’t repeat them.

The whole picture in one sentence: Fear and Greed at 29, down from 30 yesterday, still in fear territory; $BTC around 74,045, $ETH around 2,062, and $BNB around 682. All slightly higher than yesterday morning—not much more to say.

I’ll check back at the same time tomorrow and compare notes again—whether the bridge is up and whether that token has appeared.

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