Виталик Бутерин: PeerDAS — новый шаг к эффективному масштабированию Ethereum Translate: Vitalik Buterin: PeerDAS — a New Step Towards Efficient Ethereum Scaling

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has stated that the Peer Data Availability Sampling (PeerDAS) technology will be a crucial component for scaling the network. It will be included in the upcoming Fusaka update.

PeerDAS will enable nodes to check the availability of block data without needing to download it in full. The nodes will receive small fragments and use erasure coding to reconstruct the remaining information. Buterin described this approach as unique.

For certain operations in the first version of PeerDAS, complete data will still be required. However, only one honest node will be needed for this, ensuring the system’s resilience against attacks.

The discussion was ignited after analyst hildobby reported a record on the Ethereum network—six large binary data arrays (BLOB) per block. These data packages were introduced in the Dencun update to reduce transaction costs in Layer 2 (L2) networks.

According to hildobby, the BLOB space is being utilized by networks like Base and World. Together, these L2 solutions contribute around $200,000 weekly in fees to the main network, with many BLOBs remaining partially empty.

Buterin emphasized that the number of large binary data arrays will be gradually increased to test the system. In the long term, even information from L1 transactions could be transferred to BLOBs.

It should be noted that the Fusaka update on the Ethereum mainnet is scheduled for December 3rd.