Blast says it will wind down because the ongoing cost of maintaining the chain now exceeds the revenue generated by the L2
• Users are being asked to withdraw assets to Ethereum mainnet • Withdrawal delay will be reduced to 24 hours • Blast’s Lido assets will be withdrawn first, expected to take ~1 week • Normal withdrawals will remain available until October 26, 2026 • After Oct. 26, users will need to interact directly with Blast’s Ethereum L1 bridge contracts
- graduated Cum Laude from Harvard Uni - started at Oliver Wyman as a consultant in NY - joined binance in 2018, initially as special assistant to co-founder Yi He - worked closely with Yi He on global expansion - built Binance's central marketing team from the ground up - her growth team drove 45% of Binance's new users in six months - helped grow Binance's community to 10M+ members - 2022: became CEO of TrustWallet - grew users from 40M to 230M - turned a $10M loss into nearly $90M revenue - named to CoinDesk 's Top 50 Women in Web3 & AI - 2026: stepped down from Trust Wallet - returned to Binance as interim CMO
From Harvard grad to running the world's largest self-custody wallet, now back at Binance.
We sat down with Eowyn Chen and covered 3 things to check before joining an exchange, the hardest scams for exchanges to stop, why self-custody isn't for 90% of beginners, and Binance's roadmap to 1 billion users.