New post on ! Slot Restructuring: Design Considerations and Trade-Offs By: - @nero_eth 🔗 Highlights: - EIP-7886 offers about 80% of the throughput benefits of ePBS without the added complexity. - Keeping the design simple avoids unnecessary complications like splitting beacon and payload blocks or introducing complex payment mechanisms. - The proposed changes can significantly enhance Layer 1 scaling while maintaining the current MEV-Boost flow. - Future enhancements can be layered on top of the simpler design if needed, allowing for gradual improvements. - The research emphasizes the importance of minimizing complexity to maximize future compatibility and scalability. ELI5: This research discusses how to improve Ethereum's transaction processing by changing how data is organized in blocks. It compares two methods: one that is complex but offers maximum efficiency (ePBS) and a simpler one that still provides good performance (EIP-7886). The goal is to make Ethereum faster and more efficient while keeping things manageable.

🤖The Weekly Roundup📈 A practical proposal for Multidimensional Gas Metering By: @misilva73 🔗 🔥 7 comments this week Unpredictable RANDAO By: banr1 🔗 🔥 7 comments this week Future-Proofing Preconfirmations By: @ConorMcMenamin9 🔗 1 comments this week The paths of least resistance: Introducing WFR-Gossip By: @soispoke 🔗 3 comments this week Relay Block Merging: Boosting Value & Censorship Resistance By: remosm 🔗 1 comments this week Using Portal network protocol for history-expiry By: morph-dev 🔗 3 comments this week A pragmatic path towards Validity-Only Partial Statelessness (VOPS) By: @soispoke 🔗 4 comments this week Post-Pectra in Practice: A Public Dashboard for Real-World P2P Metrics By: jumanzii 🔗 1 comments this week DSM: Decentralized State Machine - Solving the "Double Spend Problem" without the need for global consensus, unlocking a new paradigm By: @Cryptskii 🔗 🔥 5 comments this week

New post on ! The paths of least resistance: Introducing WFR-Gossip By: - Thomas Thiery - Léonard Monsaingeon - Caspar Schwarz-Schilling - Julian Ma - @weboftrees - Raúl Kripalani - Yann Vonlanthen - Csaba Kiraly - Marco Munizaga 🔗 Highlights: - WFR-Gossip reduces bandwidth usage by approximately 50% compared to traditional Gossipsub methods. - It improves message delivery speed (latency) by about 40% while maintaining over 95% network coverage. - The protocol uses a mathematical approach called optimal transport to decide the best paths for message propagation. - WFR-Gossip employs a hybrid forwarding strategy that balances robustness and efficiency, ensuring messages reach their destinations without unnecessary duplicates. - Simulations show that WFR-Gossip achieves a sweet spot in performance, maximizing coverage while minimizing bandwidth usage, particularly at a robustness parameter of 3. ELI5: This research introduces a new way to share messages in a network called WFR-Gossip. Instead of sending the same message to many places at once (which wastes bandwidth), it sends messages more intelligently by choosing the fastest paths. This method reduces the number of duplicate messages and speeds up delivery.

🤖 New EIP: EIP-7932 By: - James Kempton (@SirSpudlington) 🔗 This EIP introduces a new algorithm type `0x0` for Ed25519 signature support, aimed at facilitating transaction signing and providing a testing framework for the implementation of EIP-7932. It highlights the advantages of Ed25519 in terms of widespread use and tooling support, while also imposing a high gas penalty to limit its usage primarily for testing purposes.

New post on ! A practical proposal for Multidimensional Gas Metering By: - @misilva73 - dcrapis 🔗 Highlights: - The current gas metering system in Ethereum combines transaction pricing and block limits, which can be inefficient. - A multidimensional metering scheme can increase transaction throughput by approximately 240% by allowing different types of resource usage to be measured separately. - The proposed scheme maintains the user experience and fee structure while improving resource utilization in blocks. - The new metering system introduces a variable that tracks the maximum resource used, rather than the total, to determine block validity. - Future steps involve defining which resources to track and how to measure their usage accurately to optimize the gas metering process. ELI5: This research proposes a new way to measure gas usage in Ethereum transactions by separating different types of resource usage (like computation and memory) instead of treating them all the same. This could help fit more transactions into each block without changing how users pay for them.

New post on ! The State of Type 3 Transactions After Pectra: One Month of Blob Data Activity By: - leobago 🔗 Highlights: - Approximately 300,000 Type 3 transactions (t3tx) occurred in the first month after the Pectra upgrade. - 85 different senders contributed to these transactions, with the top 25 senders responsible for over 93% of the total. - 84% of t3tx have at least two slots of distance from the next transaction by the same sender, indicating a spread-out posting pattern. - The study highlights potential issues for sharded mempool designs, where closely timed transactions from the same sender could lead to inclusion problems if they land in different shards. - The findings suggest that while some batching behavior exists among large senders, most transactions are sufficiently spaced out to avoid blocking each other. ELI5: This research looks at a new type of transaction in Ethereum called Type 3 transactions (t3tx), which help manage data more efficiently. After a major upgrade called Pectra, the study found that a lot of these transactions were happening, mostly from a few big senders. It also checked how close together these transactions were submitted, which is important for how well the system can handle them.

New post on ! Unpredictable RANDAO By: - banr1 - banri - vita - Hiro 🔗 Highlights: - The traditional RANDAO mechanism in Ethereum is vulnerable to attacks that allow manipulators to predict future randomness, leading to unfair advantages. - The proposed Unpredictable RANDAO reduces the number of possible future states an attacker can control from an exponential scale (2^k) to a linear scale (k+1), even if they control k consecutive slots. - By using a committee-based Distributed Key Generation (DKG) and threshold signatures, the new method makes it significantly harder for attackers to predict future randomness. - The economic incentives for attacks like Selfish Mixing and Forking are weakened, as the predictability of the randomness is drastically reduced. - Future research is needed to quantitatively assess the impact of this new approach on real-world economic incentives and the liveness of the blockchain. ELI5: This research discusses a new way to generate randomness in Ethereum's Beacon Chain that makes it much harder for attackers to predict or manipulate future outcomes. Instead of relying on one person to create the random number, a group of people work together to make it, which makes it safer.

New post on ! Behind the Scenes of Ethereum's Pectra Upgrade: A Data-Driven Analysis By: - dennis-tra 🔗 Highlights: - 53% of the network was ready for the upgrade two days before it happened. - 70% of the network upgraded immediately, with an additional ~18% upgrading within five days after the fork. - Block broadcasting latency improved slightly, with a median decrease of about 200ms, but some regions experienced slower block arrival times. - Around 5% of blocks still do not arrive on time, which could lead to fewer rewards for validators. - The network's overall health remained stable post-upgrade, despite a slight drop in upload throughput for less powerful nodes. ELI5: This article looks at a major update to the Ethereum network called the Pectra upgrade. It examines how well the network prepared for this update, how quickly nodes (computers that help run the network) upgraded, and whether the changes improved the speed at which information is shared across the network.

New post on ! Blob Sharing for Based Rollups By: - Anshu Jalan - Lin Oshitani 🔗 Highlights: - Based rollups are inefficiently using blob space, leading to high costs for operators. - The proposed solution uses a shared proposer to aggregate data from multiple rollups into a single blob, improving efficiency. - EIP-7702 is utilized to allow temporary smart contract capabilities during transactions, simplifying the process. - The protocol is designed to be simple and flexible, accommodating various rollup architectures without requiring major changes. - Future work includes integrating this protocol into existing rollup stacks and exploring broader applications beyond just based rollups. ELI5: This research discusses a new way for different blockchain systems (called based rollups) to share data more efficiently. Right now, these systems waste a lot of money and space by not fully using the data they send. The authors propose a method to combine data from multiple systems into one package, which saves costs and makes everything run smoother.

New post on ! Using Portal network protocol for history-expiry By: - morph-dev 🔗 Highlights: - The Finalized Chain History subnetwork is designed to provide decentralized storage for finalized historical Ethereum data. - Nodes that are Execution Layer clients will store all historical headers locally, while others will need a method to obtain block headers for verification. - The content id derivation function is crucial for evenly distributing content across the network and allows for future batch requests. - The subnetwork supports standard protocol messages like Ping, FindNodes, and FindContent, which facilitate communication between nodes. - Future improvements may include better network support and the ability to perform range queries, enhancing the efficiency of data retrieval. ELI5: This research introduces a new way to store historical Ethereum data using a special network protocol called the Portal wire protocol. It allows nodes (computers in the network) to keep track of past transactions and blocks in a decentralized manner, making it easier for them to verify and access this information.