Blobs

Contents

• Blob Carrying Transaction Count

• Mean Blob Carrying Transactions Per Block Count

• Median Blob Carrying Transactions Per Block Count

• Count of Transactions including blob inscriptions

• Blob Transaction Count sent to contracts

• Blob Transaction Count Layer 2s

Blob Count

Definition

Number of transactions carrying a blob in the interval.

Name	MetricID	Unit	Interval
Blob Carrying Transaction Count	TxBlobCnt	Transactions	1 block, 1 day

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Mean Blob Carrying Transactions Per Block Count

Definition

Mean number of transactions per block, carrying a blob in the interval

Name	MetricID	Unit	Interval
Mean Blob Carrying Transactions Per Block Count	TxBlobMeanCnt	Transactions	1 day

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Median Blob Carrying Transactions Per Block Count

Definition

Median number of transactions per block carrying a blob in the interval

Name	MetricID	Unit	Interval
Median Blob Carrying Transactions Per Block Count	TxBlobMedCnt	Transactions	1 day

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Count of Transactions Including Blob Inscriptions

Definition

The sum count of data inscription transactions using blobs created that interval that were included in the main chain. Data inscription transactions are transactions following ESIP-8.

Name	MetricID	Unit	Interval
Blob Inscription Tx Cnt	TxBlobInscrCnt	Transactions	1 day

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Blob Transaction Count Sent to Contracts

Definition

The sum count of blob transactions sent to contracts or burn addresses in that interval. Burn addresses are address which contain more than 10 consecutive empty bytes in their binary representation.

Name	MetricID	Unit	Interval
Blob Contract Tx Cnt	TxBlobContCnt	Transactions	1 day

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Blob Transaction Count Layer 2s

Definition

Number of blob carrying transactions originating from L2 sequencers, included in the interval.

Name	MetricID	Unit	Interval
Blob Transactions (layer 2)	TxBlobL2Cnt	Transactions	1 day
Blob Transactions (Arbitrum)	TxBlobARBCnt	Transactions	1 day
Blob Transactions (Optimism)	TxBlobOPCnt	Transactions	1 day
Blob Transactions (Base)	TxBlobBASECnt	Transactions	1 day

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Details

• The aggregate L2 metric (TxBlobL2Cnt) includes all tagged L2 sequencers. This list includes additional L2s that do not have dedicated metrics.

API Endpoints

Exhange Deposits metrics can be accessed using these endpoints:

• timeseries/asset-metrics

and by passing in the metric ID's TxBlob* in the metrics parameter.

Shell

curl --compressed "https://api.coinmetrics.io/v4/timeseries/asset-metrics?metrics=TxBlobCnt&assets=eth&pretty=true&api_key=<your_key>"

Python

Python Client