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

4/8/2026, 11:31:49 AM
Betty LynnBy Betty Lynn
‘Blocks Are Dead. Long Live Blobs’: Ethereum researchers explore upgrade to ease validator data burden

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