Ethereum (ETH)-founder Vitalik Buterin shared the details of a large upgrade: Fusaka on X. This technical adjustment must make the Ethereum network more efficient, safer and more scalable, especially for Layer-2 applications.
Core of the Fusaka upgrade
Central to Fusaka is Peerdas. This is a protocol with which Nodes, the computers participating in the network and validating data, can verify the availability of data without having to store all information on the network.
Buterin explains that the system picks up small pieces of data and then reconstructs missing parts with Erasure Coding. Erasure Coding is a technique that can reconstruct missing data with the help of extra arithmetic pieces. As a result, a node with only part of the data can still restore the entire block. This increases both efficiency and safety.
“If more than 50% of the data pieces are available, a node that theoretical downloads and with Erasure Coding can restore the rest,” says Buterin.
Growing adoption and impact on Ethereum
Another crucial part of Fusaka is all about blobs. A Blob bundles several transactions or data from a Layer 2 network (such as base or arbitrum) together in one large data block. Instead of saving each transaction separately on the Ethereum blockchain, it is packed together in such a blob and processed as a whole.
Ethereum fed six blobs per block for the first time on Wednesday. According to Hildebert Moulié from Dragonfly, an international crypto investment company, this milestone was mainly driven by these Layer-2 networks. Base and Worldcoin took almost two -thirds of this together.
Buterin emphasized that developers are careful in increasing the number of blobs. This cautious approach must guarantee the safety of the network and makes further scalability possible, both on Layer-2 and in the long term on Ethereum MAINNET. Ethereum is thereby positioning itself for sustainable expansion: more scalable, safer and at the same time a breeding ground for innovation.
Source: https://newsbit.nl/ethereum-kondigt-fusaka-upgrade-aan-veiliger-en-schaalbaarder-dan-ooit/
