Ethereum core developers held their 143rd all core devs call this week, discussing EIP-4444, EIP-4844, and updates for the upcoming merge on Goerli. EIP-4844 will be part of The Surge upgrade on Ethereum and could be implemented as soon as the Shanghai hard fork, the first post-merge upgrade. EIP-4844, aka protodanksharding, proposes an intermediate sharding specification for Ethereum which accepts “blobs” of data to be persisted in the beacon node. The goal is to immediately enable lower transaction fees on L2 rollups. The core devs discussed the ongoing coordination of the KZG ceremony, a process for providing random input for the proving scheme used to verify shard data. EIP-4444 seeks to limit how execution layer nodes store and access historical data. Currently, uncompressed historical chain data on Ethereum is costing validators upwards of 300GB of storage. EIP-4444 relies on multiple parties hosting and distributing historical chain data.
Flashbots released a landing page for MEV Boost, a free open-source software for Beacon Chain validators. MEV-Boost allows validators to maximize staking rewards by selling blockspace to an open market. According to Flashbots, validators can increase rewards by up to 75%, increasing their APR upwards of 12% rather than the base ETH staking APR of ~7.35%. MEV Boost is currently in a testing phase, focusing on preventing liveness failures once Ethereum transitions to proof-of-stake. Flashbots is a research and development organization that provides tools for fair MEV extracion. Flashbots Auction is an MEV product available to miners and searchers. Ethereum users can use the Flashbots RPC for MEV-protected transactions.
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney posted a tweet in response to Minecraft’s NFT ban, stating that the Epic Games Store will not ban NFTs in games. He added on to say that stores and operating system makers shouldn’t interfere by forcing their views onto others. Epic Games is the game publisher behind Fortnite, Fall Guys, and Cyberpunk 2077 among others. The Epic Games marketplace reported over 194 million users at the end of 2021. The game publisher previously raised $2 billion from Sony and LEGO in April. Sweeney had stated the funds would be used to accelerate the company’s work to build a metaverse.
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