Ethereum's Fusaka: Buterin Reveals Radical Scaling Shift
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has introduced the network’s next significant scaling endeavor, terming it both ambitious and meticulously risk-controlled. He stated, “Fusaka will fix this,” while consistently emphasizing that “safety first is of the utmost importance.” In a comprehensive post, Buterin elaborated on Fusaka’s core innovation, PeerDAS, describing it as an attempt to achieve something truly unprecedented: establishing a live blockchain that does not necessitate any single node to download the entirety of the data. He further explained that PeerDAS operates by probabilistically sampling data in “chunks.” If more than half of these data chunks are verified as available, nodes possess the capability to retrieve them and reconstruct the remaining data through erasure coding. Buterin acknowledged, “This is all new technology, and the core devs are wise to be super cautious on testing,” indicating that the supply of blobs would initially increase “conservatively,” with more…
