Linea becomes latest casualty as Arkham cuts L2s based on importance to crypto

It has announced that it will no longer support the Linea blockchain on its intelligence platform from January 11 to **Arkham Intelligence, a leading crypto analytics and exchange provider, which is known as “Linea” (i.e. ** **

The ruling follows the recent periodic review, which Arkham conducts to determine how relevant a chain is on factors such as user demand and its overall importance to the crypto industry.

Arkham’s recent cuts this year have targeted L2s

The official X page of Arkham announced its plan to cut Linea’s support on January 9 by asserting that Linean, which is an Ethereum layer-2 network built up by Consensyn, had apparently failed in line with the criteria set out for it.

In contrast, while the X post did not specify exactly what criteria were missing, some commentators in the comments section speculated that this must be because it is not producing enough activity or there’s little interest from users to justify its maintenance cost.

More importantly, L2 cut by Arkham, Manta blockchain and the Blast network are also scheduled to be removed on January 11, according to announcements posted via their X page. Only three have been announced, and the announcements all came within days of each other after we entered the new year.

Last year, there were no reports of any such drops by Arkham, marking the start to a trend suggesting that ArkHAM may be rid of the less relevant or used chains as part of its routine optimization.

The removal of reactions has been largely mixed, with users commenting on the effect that would make Linea and Manta less visible; this makes it harder to track token movements or dumps without Arkham’s help.

Does Arkham still support any L2?

According to data from Arkham’s platform, the other Ethereum Layer 2 networks that survived the recent culling are Arbitrum (along with Base), Mantle – Optimism and Polygon in particular.

The most famous as Ethereum scaling solutions are they; since the Dencun upgrade from 2024, which enables transactions execution outside of the L2s (the outsourced transaction), they are less parasitic in their relationship with Ethereum, the Layer 1 they all operate on.

They are more relevant because this means they will still see usage across key metrics as more users transact on ETH. It also has shifted the L1 to focus on being a safe settlement and data availability layer, while outsourcing the real traffic to theL2s.

A new feature of the Dencun upgrade was protodanksharding using blobs – which provides an area for L2 data that does not compete with regular Ethereum transaction transactions.

The Dencun update was followed by subsequent upgrades such as the Pectra and Fusaka upgrades built on the Dencain update in 2025, which increased the blob capacity. But it turned out the idea could be viable without the Dencun upgrade, which was the key to that concept.

The Glasterdam upgrade, which is expected to significantly increase the number of blobs that the Ethereum chain can handle (and then increases its L2 capacity) will be the next step on this evolution. Similarly, there are plans to increase the blob capacity by full danksharding (although it is unclear at this time) but no one knows when that will be possible.

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