Robinhood Chain's Blobs Missed Ethereum for 14 Minutes
Robinhood Chain's transaction batches stopped reaching Ethereum for 14 minutes on Friday, split across two gaps, after a Base traffic spike drove up blob prices. The chain's blocks never stopped producing.
As more rollups compete for the same Ethereum blob space, how should that capacity be allocated when multiple chains need it at once? Robinhood Chain accounted for 28% of all blobs posted during the crunch and 45% beforehand, more than any other sender, yet still lost access when Base's demand spiked. If blob demand keeps growing, is fee bidding enough, or does Ethereum need a different way to share this resource among competing layer-2 networks?
https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/robinhood-chain-blob-outage-ethereum-14-minutes-2026-09-06
Robinhood Chain's transaction batches stopped reaching Ethereum for 14 minutes on Friday, split across two gaps, after a Base traffic spike drove up blob prices. The chain's blocks never stopped producing.
As more rollups compete for the same Ethereum blob space, how should that capacity be allocated when multiple chains need it at once? Robinhood Chain accounted for 28% of all blobs posted during the crunch and 45% beforehand, more than any other sender, yet still lost access when Base's demand spiked. If blob demand keeps growing, is fee bidding enough, or does Ethereum need a different way to share this resource among competing layer-2 networks?
https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/robinhood-chain-blob-outage-ethereum-14-minutes-2026-09-06
