Arcam Intelligence, a prominent cryptocurrency analysis and exchange platform, has announced that it will no longer provide support for the Linea blockchain on its Intelligence platform starting January 11th.
The decision comes amid regular reviews conducted by Arcam to determine how relevant the chain is based on factors such as user demand and overall importance to the crypto industry.
Arkham’s recent cuts this year target L2
arkham shared the plan Consensys discontinued support for Linea via its official X page on January 9, claiming that Linea, an Ethereum layer 2 network developed by Consensys, did not appear to meet standards.
X’s post didn’t say exactly which criteria were not met, but many in the comments section speculated that it was because it wasn’t generating enough activity or there wasn’t enough user interest to justify the cost of maintenance.
More importantly, Linea isn’t the only L2 cut by Arkham. manta ray blockchain and blast The network will also be removed on January 11, according to an announcement shared on the X page. These are the only three that have been announced so far, and they all came within a few days of the new year.
Last year, there was no record of such a drop by Arkham. This highlights the beginning of a trend that indicates Arkham may be removing less relevant or unused chains as part of daily optimization.
Reaction to the removal was largely mixed, with users highlighting concerns that it would reduce Linea and Manta’s visibility and make it difficult to track token movements and dumps without Arkham’s help.
Does Arkham still support L2?
According to data from Arkham’s platform, the remaining Ethereum Layer 2 networks that survived the recent shakeout include Arbitrum, Base, Mantle, Optimism, Polygon, and especially Polygon zkEVM.
These are all well-known scaling solutions for Ethereum, and thanks to the Dencun upgrade from 2024 that outsources transaction execution to L2, they are now less parasitic in their relationship with Ethereum, the layer 1 on which everything operates.
This ensures that as more users trade in ETH, we continue to see usage across key metrics, increasing its relevance. Additionally, L1 can now focus on secure payments and acting as a data availability layer while outsourcing the actual traffic to L2.
The Dencun upgrade introduced protodunk sharding (using BLOBs). This provides dedicated space for L2 data that does not conflict with standard Ethereum transactions.
In 2025, subsequent upgrades such as Pectra and Fusaka upgrades built on the Dencun update by increasing blob capacity. However, the Dencun upgrade played a pivotal role in making this idea a reality.
The next upgrade to occur is the Glasterdam upgrade, scheduled for early 2026, which is expected to significantly increase the number of blobs that the Ethereum chain can handle, followed by an increase in L2 capacity. There are also plans to increase blob capacity through full dank sharding, but the schedule is currently unknown.
