1.6.2
Almost every app here is a thin client over somebody else's service, which gives this system a failure mode ordinary desktop software does not have: a panel can go empty without making the cause obvious. Activity Monitor brings service health, request status and local application activity into one diagnostic view. ETH Hub gains the two tabs that bring it level with Solana Hub: Network, which prices ordinary actions in ETH and dollars instead of quoting a base fee nobody can act on, and Tools, which does the small conversions locally rather than sending an amount or a piece of transaction data to a stranger's website. Farcaster arrives as a read-only reader for channels, profiles and threads. And Escape now closes the focused window, which took teaching every sheet, menu and lightbox in the system to claim the key first.
8 changes in this release
Highlights
- 01
Activity Monitor, or why an app is showing nothing
Activity Monitor shows live request status and timing, service health, application activity and a summary of local data use so an empty panel has useful diagnostics instead of a mystery.
- 02
What the chain costs, not what the base fee is
ETH Hub's Network tab leads with a table of ordinary actions, a transfer, a swap, an approval, priced in ETH and in dollars, with the base fee shown once against the last twenty blocks so "is now expensive" has an answer. Ethereum and Base are not smoothed into one panel: Ethereum's blocks carry data blobs and Base pays Ethereum to publish its data, so each chain gets the readings that are true for it rather than a shared panel with half its rows reading n/a.
- 03
The small conversions, done on your machine
A Tools tab for the questions the other tabs raise: units between wei, gwei and ether; a function or event signature to its short form; transaction data read back into the call it describes; hashing and hex conversion; and an address checked and asked whether it is a contract. Four of the five never leave your machine, because the alternative is pasting an amount or a blob of transaction data into a stranger's website, and either can say a great deal about what someone is about to do.
- 04
Farcaster, read-only and honest about it
Channels, profiles and threads live on the same shell as the chain hubs, with Channels and Search each remembering their own history. The integration stays read-only by design.
- 05
Escape closes the window
The key every other desktop uses to back out of something now closes the focused window, but only when nothing nearer has a claim on it. A context menu, a lightbox, an open dropdown or a confirm sheet gets the key first, so dismissing a dialog no longer risks taking the whole window with it, and a burn in progress cannot be escaped out from under. It can be switched off in Settings for anyone who would rather not lose a window to a stray keypress.
Everything in this release
New5
- Activity Monitor: live request status and timing, service health, currently open windows and a summary of local application data in one diagnostic view.
- A Network tab in ETH Hub: ordinary actions priced in ETH and dollars, the base fee against the last twenty blocks, and the readings that are true for each chain, blob usage on Ethereum and the Ethereum data fee on Base. It updates only while it is the tab on screen.
- A Tools tab in ETH Hub: unit conversion, function and event signatures, reading transaction data back into the call it describes, hashing and hex conversion, and an address inspector that checks an address and asks whether it is a contract. Only the last one leaves your machine, and it says so.
- Farcaster, a read-only reader for channels, profiles and threads, where each tab remembers its own history so going back returns to where you came from rather than to a tab's starting point.
- Escape closes the focused window, deferring to any sheet, menu, dropdown, lightbox or dialog that has a better claim on the key. Off-switch in Settings → Window for anyone who would rather it did not.
Improved2
- Pump.fun keeps a permanent section rail on the desktop instead of a segmented strip: four destinations that are four different jobs, each able to advertise its own state, beside a form that should never move while it is being filled in. It collapses to icons in a narrow window and hands over to bottom tabs on a phone, with the same travelling pill marking the active section at every width.
- ETH Hub's Explorer no longer carries a gas badge of its own. The Network tab owns that signal, and two tabs reporting the same figure was one too many.
Fixed1
- A five-tab section control squeezed its labels into truncation. Segmented controls now size to the number of sections they carry, and a tab with a long badge no longer grows wider than its neighbours and pulls the sliding indicator out of alignment with the tab under it.