Zero-knowledge (ZK) proof options have proved crucial in serving to scale the Ethereum ecosystem, however proto-danksharding is predicted to drastically scale back the price of rollups, based on Consensys’ zkEVM Linea head Nicolas Liochon.
Talking completely to Cointelegraph Journal editor Andrew Fenton throughout Korea Blockchain Week, Liochon estimated that proto-danksharding might additional scale back rollup prices by 10 instances.
Proto-danksharding, additionally recognized by its Ethereum Enchancment Proposal (EIP) identifier EIP-4844, is aimed toward decreasing the price of rollups, which usually batch transactions and information off-chain and submit computational proof to the Ethereum blockchain.
The Ethereum Basis has but to nail down an anticipated launch date for proto-danksharding, however growth and testing are nonetheless ongoing.
As Liochon defined, Linea delivers 15 instances cheaper transactions in comparison with these made on Ethereum’s layer 1, however rollups are nonetheless restricted by the truth that transactions are posted in name information in Ethereum blocks.
In keeping with Ethereum’s documentation, rollups are nonetheless costly when it comes to their potential as a result of name information is processed by all Ethereum nodes and the info is saved on-chain indefinitely even if the info solely must be obtainable for a brief time frame.
EIP-4844 will introduce information blocks that may be despatched and hooked up to blocks. The information saved in blocks will not be accessible to the Ethereum Digital Machine and will likely be deleted after a sure time interval, which is touted to drastically scale back transaction prices.
“In actuality, the price of rollups is all the way down to information availability. We’re writing all the info to layer 1, which is why we’ve got precisely the identical safety. However it’s costly; it represents 95% of the associated fee.”
Liochon mentioned that Linea’s prover, which primarily handles the off-chain computation that verifies, bundles, after which creates a cryptographic proof of the mixed transactions, solely represents a fifth of the associated fee.
This highlights the foremost hurdle in making ZK-rollups the go-to scaling answer for the Ethereum ecosystem versus different options like Optimistic Rollups.
Liochon additionally mentioned that Linea goals to be a general-purpose ZK-rollup that will likely be used for a wide range of decentralized functions and options throughout the Ethereum ecosystem.
“We’re a generic rollup. We don’t wish to have a particular use case or particular area. It’s fairly essential to assist all forms of functions, together with DeFi, gaming and social.”
As Cointelegraph beforehand reported, Consensys accomplished the launch of Linea in August 2023, having onboarding over 150 companions and bridging greater than $26 million in Ether (ETH).
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