A highly anticipated upgrade to the Ethereum network called Dencun has cleared a major hurdle and became active on the Sepolia testnet on Tuesday. This development follows his activation on the Goerli testnet earlier this month.
Dencun introduces “proto-dunksharding” to the number one proof-of-stake blockchain. protodunk sharding is designed to reduce transaction costs and cheap data availability for layer 2 blockchains while also addressing scalability issues. This latest upgrade lays the foundation for complete “dunk sharding” to further reduce costs and improve performance.
Once fully implemented, Dencun will enable the Ethereum network to process more than 100,000 transactions per second more cheaply.
The last of three testnet deployments, called Holesky, is scheduled to implement Dencun on February 7th. Once this test is complete, a date will be set to activate Dencun on the main Ethereum blockchain.
“Dank Sharding is the way Ethereum becomes a truly scalable blockchain, but it will take some protocol upgrades to get there,” Ethereum Developer I have written On Ethereum’s official website. “Protodunk sharding is an intermediate step along the way.”
The Dencun upgrade also introduces “BLOBs,” which aim to reduce Ethereum mainnet rollup costs by first compressing transaction data off-chain and offloading storage and processing. .
Data temporarily stored in a BLOB is only needed for a short period of time to validate transactions and can be safely deleted to avoid network overload. Encryption commitments ensure that any changes to data are detectable, enabling secure and efficient data processing.
Edited by Ryan Ozawa.
