# Rollup Teams Call For Blob Increase *The Pectra upgrade will double the blob capacity from 3 to 6 blobs per block but demand is likely to outpace that capacity within months. * By [ETH Daily](https://ethdaily.io) · 2025-01-18 news, 2025, january2025 --- Quick Take ---------- * Rollup teams call for a blob increase. * Brave Search supports ENS Lookup. * EF 2024 Academic Grants Round winners. * * * [ Rollup Teams Call For Blob Increase ----------------------------------- Listen to this episode from Ethereum News on Spotify. Rollup teams call for a blob capacity increase. Brave Search releases ENS Lookup support. And the EF announced its 2024 Academic Grants Round winners. Read more: https://ethdaily.io/628 https://spotify.com ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/701a072fa1944613c54f0e05bc9e575e.jpg) ](https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Bujx4RxJ23PzErjhPnjNI) **Listen on:** [**Apple**](https://apple.co/3C3VWuL) | [**Spotify**](https://spoti.fi/407DJV5) | [**Castbox**](https://bit.ly/3C1jNuY) | [**YouTube**](https://bit.ly/40nD43d)  * * * Rollup Teams Call For Blob Increases ------------------------------------ Jesse Pollak, lead builder at Base, [called](https://x.com/jessepollak/status/1880326469551026267) for an increase in blob capacity on Ethereum, stating that current blob fees are constraining L2 growth. The demand comes amid rising blob base fee costs for rollups, driven by increasing activity and competition within the current limit of three blobs per block. Over the past week, more than 340 ETH has been burned in base blob fees. Optimism core contributor Karl Floersch emphasized that blob scaling remains the most critical feature both during and after the Pectra upgrade. The upcoming Pectra upgrade is set to double the blob capacity to six blobs per block, but the measure is expected to serve as only a temporary fix, with demand likely to outpace capacity within months. A medium-term solution, PeerDAS, a decentralized data availability sampling system, is planned in Fusaka, the fork after Pectra, to address the blob market. Brave Search Supports ENS Lookup -------------------------------- Brave Search [now supports](https://brave.com/blog/brave-search-blockchain-explorer/) resolution for ENS domain names, enabling users to instantly search any .eth second or top-level domain to view wallet balances directly in search results. The feature displays ETH and ERC-20 token balances across EVM chains, including Ethereum, Base, Optimism, Arbitrum, and Polygon. ENS is the leading naming protocol that turns hexadecimal wallet addresses into human-readable names, with nearly 2 million active .eth names registered to date. Brave is a privacy-focused browser that processes over 1.2 billion queries monthly. Users can access the ENS lookup on Brave Search, with or without the Brave Browser. [![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/5dd5f6411d017699913958fd7cda2cd7.png)](https://apple.co/4gM0Prg) ### 2024 EF Academic Grants Round The Ethereum Foundation [announced](https://blog.ethereum.org/2025/01/17/academic-grants-recipients) the grantees from its 2024 Academic Grants Round, a grant series designed to support Ethereum-related academic work addressing critical challenges in cryptography, consensus mechanisms, security, and execution. A total of $1.7 million was allocated across 41 selected grantees, which includes researchers, universities, and students.  The eight grants categories included: Client Engineering, Consensus Layer, Cryptography and Zero-Knowledge Proofs, Cybersecurity and Privacy, Economics and MEV, Formal Verification, P2P Networking, and Society and Regulation. Any researchers who missed the deadline for the Academic Grants Round are encouraged to join the Ecosystem Support Program (ESP). Other News ---------- * Aave [hits](https://x.com/aave/status/1880281444393841080) $730m TVL on Base * Changing blob count [may delay](https://x.com/TimBeiko/status/1880335069992353829) Pectra * Ameen on [blob ext](https://x.com/ameensol/status/1880385635141452056)r[emes](https://x.com/ameensol/status/1880385635141452056) * Jesse on [long-term blob capacity](https://x.com/jessepollak/status/1880393540938920401) * Francis: [6/9 is a good step for Pectra](https://x.com/fradamt/status/1880398436710903951) * $80m USDT [transfer](https://x.com/_PatrickSutton/status/1880313677964071172) to Ink * RISC Zero [partners](https://x.com/RiscZero/status/1879892621856014413) with Irreducible * FDIC [stonewalls](https://x.com/iampaulgrewal/status/1880324051647823976) FOIA requests * * * **Follow us on** [**X**](https://bit.ly/4gJwvhe)**,** [**Lens**](https://bit.ly/4fUi4FE)**, and** [**Farcaster**](https://bit.ly/3Pqbyfd)**.** --- *Originally published on [ETH Daily](https://ethdaily.io/628)*