Arkham Intelligence, a leading crypto analytics and exchange platform, has announced that it will no longer support the Linea blockchain on its intelligence platform starting January 11.
The decision comes amid a periodic review that Arkham conducts to determine how relevant a chain is, based on factors such as user demand and its overall importance to the crypto industry.
Arkham’s recent cuts this year are focused on L2s
Arkham shared his plan to end support for Linea on January 9 via the official X page, claiming that Linea, an Ethereum layer-2 network developed by Consensys, apparently did not meet the criteria.
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More importantly, Linea isn’t the only L2 cut by Arkham. Manta blockchain, and the Explosion network will also be removed on January 11, according to announcements shared via their X page. Only those three have been announced so far, and the announcements all came within days of each other as we entered the new year.
There was no data on such declines from Arkham last year, highlighting the beginning of a trend that suggests Arkham may be cutting less relevant or used chains as part of its routine optimization.
Reactions to the removal have been mostly mixed, with users expressing concerns about how this would result in reduced visibility for Linea and Manta, making it harder to track token movements or dumps without Arkham’s help.
Does Arkham still support L2?
According to data from the Arkham platform, the remaining Ethereum Layer 2 networks that survived the recent cull include Arbitrum, Base, Mantle, Optimism, and Polygon, most notably Polygon zkEVM.
They are all known as Ethereum scaling solutions, and thanks to the 2024 Dencun upgrade, which outsourced transaction execution to the L2s, they are less parasitic in their relationship with Ethereum, the Layer 1 on which they all operate.
This has increased their relevance, meaning they will continue to see the use of key metrics as more users transact on ETH. It has also freed the L1 to focus on being a secure settlement and data availability layer, while outsourcing the actual traffic to the L2s.
The Dencun upgrade introduced protodanksharding – the use of blobs – which provide a special space for L2 data that does not compete with standard Ethereum transactions.
In 2025, subsequent upgrades such as the Pectra and Fusaka upgrades built on the Dencun update by increasing blob capacity. However, the Dencun upgrade was the crucial upgrade that made the idea viable.
The next upgrade to take place will be the Glasterdam upgrade, scheduled for the first half of 2026, which is expected to significantly increase the number of blobs the Ethereum chain can handle and subsequently increase the capacity of its L2s. There are also plans to increase blob capacity via full thanks hardening, but the timeline for that is currently unknown.