After the successful deployment last week of Pectra, the biggest upgrade of Ethereum in more than a year, the main developers of the network are already concentrating towards the next upgrade of the chain: Fusaka.
Pectra, the biggest code change in Ethereum since merger in 2022, has introduced key changes to facilitate the implementation of institutions, improve the accessibility of the portfolio and stimulate the efficiency of transactions.
The developers have already started to plan Fusaka, the next network upgrade, and have so far agreed to include an Ethereum improvement proposal (EIP) called “Peerdas” which could help the network take care of the greater “blobs” of transaction data.
Blubs, introduced during Dencun upgrade, are dedicated spaces for large pieces of data related to transactions. They are stored out of chain, which reduces congestion on Ethereum blockchain and lowers gas costs. Blubs are crucial for the growing layer of layer 2 built above Ethereum, such as Arbitrum, Optimism and Coinbase, which treats transactions faster and at lower costs to the main chain.
Peerdas, which means the sampling of peer data availability, would allow validators to download partial Blobs data instead of complete blobs to validate if the data has been published on the network.
In theory, Peerdas could reduce the transaction costs of layer 2 and validators’ profit establishments operating on Ethereum blockchain.
“Peerdas is super important because we want to help on the scale of the 22,” said Parithosh Jayanti, Devops engineer at the Ethereum Foundation, to coincide on Telegram. “Peerdas allows us to considerably lower the Blob limit.”
Fusaka should be put online at the end of 2025 and will eventually include an additional level of upgrades beyond Peerdas. However, Ethereum developers are known to delay their upgrades.
Pectra was initially planned for the Liberation at the end of 2024, but was postponed in the first quarter of 2025. After a few defective tests, the developers still delayed the upgrade around May.
Ethereum developers have been criticized in the past year for not having implemented protocol changes fairly quickly. As the price of the network token has been late in recent months and the developers have migrated to competing ecosystems, the chain community has debated if its unofficial leader – the non -profit Ethereum Foundation – is to be blamed.
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