diff --git a/stack_orchestrator/data/compose/docker-compose-blast.yml b/stack_orchestrator/data/compose/docker-compose-blast.yml
index 91120c26..dc05494f 100644
--- a/stack_orchestrator/data/compose/docker-compose-blast.yml
+++ b/stack_orchestrator/data/compose/docker-compose-blast.yml
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ services:
     command: >
       op-node
       --l1="$L1_RPC_URL"
-      --l1.rpckind="$L1_RPC_KIND"
+      --l1.rpckind="any"
       --l2="http://blast-geth:8551"
       --l2.jwt-secret=/blast/jwt.txt
       --rollup.config="/blast/${NETWORK:-mainnet}/rollup.json"
diff --git a/stack_orchestrator/data/stacks/blast/deploy/commands.py b/stack_orchestrator/data/stacks/blast/deploy/commands.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3ed24bb1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/stack_orchestrator/data/stacks/blast/deploy/commands.py
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+from pathlib import Path
+from shutil import copy
+
+
+def create(context, extra_args):
+    #Our goal here is just to copy the genesis.json file for blast
+    deployment_config_dir = context.deployment_dir.joinpath("data", "blast-data")
+    command_context = extra_args[2]
+    compose_file = [f for f in command_context.cluster_context.compose_files if "blast" in f][0]
+    source_config_file = Path(compose_file).parent.parent.joinpath("config", "blast", "genesis.json")
+    copy(source_config_file, deployment_config_dir)
diff --git a/stack_orchestrator/data/stacks/blast/stack.yml b/stack_orchestrator/data/stacks/blast/stack.yml
index 9257a8df..677c958d 100644
--- a/stack_orchestrator/data/stacks/blast/stack.yml
+++ b/stack_orchestrator/data/stacks/blast/stack.yml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ version: "1.0"
 name: blast
 description: "A blast stack"
 repos:
+  - github.com/blast-io/blast
 containers:
 pods:
   - blast
-