📄EIP-4844
Proto-Danksharding
It introduces a new transaction format, the "blob-carrying transactions", designed to slash gas fees ⛽ and supercharge scalability.
Take the Optimistic rollups as an example:
They post compressed transaction data to Ethereum.
Then, they leave it for about 7 days, giving independent verifiers time to check things out.
Spot an issue? Raise the alarm with a fraud-proof challenge! This makes the chain backtrack and ditch the dodgy block.
But here's the catch 🎣 we talked about:
This only works if the data is there to check. Right now, this data is stored forever onchain (Ethereum L1) as CALLDATA, which makes it quite expensive. 📦
However, with the upcoming EIP-4844, rollups can soon store their data in more budget-friendly blob storage. But, it's like a Snapchat for data – it disappears after ~1-3 months! ⏳
During that short window, Ethereum's got your back, ensuring data's available. After that? It's up to the Ethereum community to keep things in check. Any node can double-check data using DAS (Data Availability Sampling), the solution to fraud-proof data availability problem!
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