Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin recently warned the crypto community of an imminent risk of network saturation. According to him, the number of “blobs” is dangerously approaching its maximum limit.
Vitalik Buterin reveals imminent blockage risk
The growing adoption of Layer 2 solutions on Ethereum has led to extensive use of blobs, introduced during the recent Dencun upgrade. These storage spaces, designed to improve network performance, are today filled to around 75% of their capacity.
“ I think the ecosystem is sleeping on the fact that it is dangerously close to a ceiling“Buterin said in a thread following a call with developers.
This situation could hamper the growth of L2 protocols, which rely heavily on these blobs to publish their data on the main blockchain.
Faced with this observation, Buterin proposes increasing the number of blobs per block, going from the current objective of three (with a maximum of six) to four (with a maximum of eight). This change would increase data storage capacity per block, providing more flexibility for L2 networks.
Crypto solutions currently being developed
To address this issue, an Ethereum improvement proposal (EIP-7623) is currently under study. It aims to increase the cost of call data for transactions primarily using Ethereum for data availability.
This measure would have the effect of reducing the maximum block size from 2.7 MB to around 1 MB, while potentially allowing the block gas limit or blob count to be increased. Buterin insists on the crucial importance of this proposition: “ EIP-7623 is crucial for this as it ensures that the worst-case block size decreases significantly. »
The Ethereum community is mobilizing in the face of this major issue. Jesse Pollak, creator of Coinbase L2 Base, notably expressed his support for Buterin's proposal, highlighting the benefits in terms of reducing block sizes and adding capacity for growing L2s.
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