CashboardWidget · Chain pulse
Base and Robinhood Chain stats: TPS, gas, TVL and DEX volume
Chain pulse is a health check for Base in one widget: block time, gas, live TPS, TVL, spot DEX volume and stablecoin supply. A switch in its header gives you the same view of Robinhood Chain. Blocks and gas come straight from each chain's public RPC every 15 seconds, daily transactions from L2BEAT and the liquidity figures from DefiLlama. The block age keeps counting between refreshes. It turns amber and says stalled after a minute with no new block, or stale when a refresh fails or 45 seconds pass without one. When one source is down, only its tiles read n/a.
What does the Chain pulse widget show?
- Latest block number, the average block time and how long ago the newest block landed
- Gas in gwei, with what a 21,000 gas transfer and a 150,000 gas swap cost in dollars before the L1 data fee
- Live TPS from the newest blocks next to a full-day average from L2BEAT, plus a line of daily transaction counts
- On Base, how much of the gas limit the last 20 blocks used, with a base fee line
- TVL with its 7-day change, 24h spot DEX volume with 1-day and 7-day change, and stablecoin supply with 7-day and 30-day change
- Up to six of the busiest DEXs by 24h volume, each with its share and 1-day change
Where does the Chain pulse data come from?
| Sources | Base and Robinhood Chain public RPCs, L2BEAT activity data, DefiLlama TVL, DEX volume and stablecoin data, Hyperliquid ETH mid price for the dollar costs |
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| Settings | Base or Robinhood, picked with the switch in the widget header |
| Works in | Web and desktop |
| Access | Read-only. The widget itself never asks for a signature |
Which board templates include Chain pulse?
- 8 widgetsBase DeskBase block times, gas and DEX volume, new Zora and Clanker launches, trending pools, Coinbase stock tokens, lending yields and a swap you can buy from with your own wallet.
- 11 widgetsRobinhood DeskRobinhood Chain activity, live Pons launches and the curves closest to graduating, stock tokens priced against the cash market, stock perps on Lighter and their funding against Hyperliquid, stablecoin yields and a swap you can buy from with your own wallet.
Guides
- How to track a Base wallet by its addressFollow any Base wallet by pasting its 0x address into a watch-only portfolio. Balances come from Blockscout's public API and nothing is ever signed.
- How to find trending tokens on BaseFind trending Base pools from GeckoTerminal with price, 1h and 24h moves, volume to liquidity and buy share, sorted by Hot, 24h, Volume or New. No account.
- How to check Base network activity: TPS, gas and DEX volumeRead Base gas, swap costs and live TPS, tell a stalled chain from a stale feed and see which DEXs carry the volume. Open the free Base board.
- How to find trending tokens on Robinhood ChainPoint Trending on-chain at Robinhood Chain for GeckoTerminal's trending pools, with 1h and 24h moves, volume, liquidity and buy share. Open the free board.
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Frequently asked questions
Why is the swap cost lower than what my wallet shows?
The tile counts only the L2 execution fee: 150,000 gas, the widget's stand-in for a swap, at the current gas price and Hyperliquid's ETH mid. Every Base transaction also pays an L1 fee for posting its data to Ethereum, and Base's docs say that part is usually the bigger one.
What changes when I switch it to Robinhood Chain?
Robinhood Chain makes a block about every 100 milliseconds, so block time reads in milliseconds, averaged over 600 blocks, and live TPS counts the last 30 blocks instead of 5. The utilization tile disappears, because that chain's fee history gives no usable fill level. The explorer link moves from Basescan to Robinhood Chain's Blockscout explorer, and a default title follows the switch while one you typed stays.
Last reviewed . Market data in Cashboard comes from the providers named on each widget and may be delayed. Nothing here is financial advice.