Blast Blockchain Briefly Freezes During Ethereum Upgrade Before Seeing Rise in TVL

• Blast blockchain froze for about an hour during Ethereum's Dencun upgrade • Blast is built on Ethereum so was impacted by the upgrade • Blast stopped producing blocks from 1405-1509 UTC, aligning with the upgrade • Competitor Arbitrum taking 24 hours to integrate Dencun upgrade elements • Blast's largest protocol, Orbit Finance, saw 32% rise in TVL to $431M despite native token plunge