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‘Blocks Are Dead. Long Live Blobs’: Ethereum researchers explore upgrade to ease validator data burden

By Naga Avan-Nomayo · Published April 8, 2026 · 1 min read · Source: The Block
Ethereum

The proposal builds on Ethereum's EIP-4844, which introduced blobs for more efficient data availability, and aims to support Layer 1 scaling.

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