ETH Dencun Upgrade and Gas Optimization: A New Era for Ethereum Transactions
Ethereum is ready to revolutionize its transaction framework and blockchain landscape with its latest upgrade, Dencun. This much-awaited upgrade is set to not only enhance security and usability but also improve gas fees for developers.
Assuming the Sepolia and Holeskey upgrades go well, Dencun will be scheduled on the Ethereum mainnet next
The Ethereum Foundation
What is Ethereum’s Dencun Upgrade?
Dencun upgrade, also known as Cancun-Deneb, is another milestone in the Ethereum roadmap that is focused on solving scalability issues, reducing L2 transaction fees, optimizing gas fees, and improving the network’s security. Scheduled for deployment in the first quarter of 2024 and on the Sepolia and Holesky testnets, the impending upgrade will implement nine EIPs. With the EIP-4844 proposal, the Ethereum upgrade is introducing a new form of transaction known as a blob-carrying transaction.
A blob-carrying transaction is like a regular transaction, except it also carries an extra piece of data called a blob
Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Etherium
Dencun’s Impact on Gas Optimization
This significant update, scheduled for Sepolia and Holesky testnets in January, brings new transaction efficiency improvements. EIP-4844 will result in a gas fee reduction paid for each transaction. Blob-carrying transactions will be a new kind of transaction brought about by the adoption of proto-danksharding.
These transactions function as “sidecars” that may be added to Ethereum transactions in order to include more data. These blobs are an affordable way to lower gas prices because they are big in size but less expensive than the call data that is currently in use. The typical Ethereum transactions can be mixed and matched in blocks following the Cancun-Deneb fork.
Key Takeaways
One of the main components of the Dencun upgrade is proto-danksharding, which offers new ways to arrange data inside Ethereum blocks. Furthermore, Dencun’s implementation of transitory state opcodes (EIP-1153) makes it possible to store big data structures more effectively on-chain. These developments will improve Ethereum’s overall user experience by enabling quicker and more affordable transactions.
Angel Marinov is the Managing Editor at Coinlabz. With extensive knowledge of crypto payments and blockchain use cases, Angel is a trusted source of accurate and timely information
