Ethereum blob usage and rollup economics in October 2026
Rollup blob purchases increased by 20.8% following the Pectra upgrade, expanding daily capacity to 8.17GB. Base consumes approximately one third of available capacity, while daily ETH…
Rollup blob purchases increased by 20.8% following the Pectra upgrade, expanding daily capacity to 8.17GB. Base consumes approximately one third of available capacity, while daily ETH…
Bitcoin Core development relies on a meritocratic system of maintainers and specialized technical leads. Ava Chow and Gloria Zhao manage critical projects like descriptor wallets and…
PeerDAS introduces a 48 blob target per block to increase throughput to 3,500 UOPS, yet MigaLabs research shows network instability when blob counts rise. High blob…
Scroll prioritizes specialized ZK technology through its Halo2 proving system, while Polygon focuses on the AggLayer to unify CDK chains. Polygon's zkEVM project faces challenges after…
Uniswap v4 architecture utilizes a singleton model and custom hooks to drive an $890 million monthly volume surge. Over 12,000 permissionless factories enable specialized liquidity pools…
BitVM2 enables off-chain program execution on Bitcoin with on-chain dispute resolution to unlock trillion-dollar potential. This third-generation bridge uses trust-minimized smart contract custodianship to secure BTC…
An October 2026 exploit drained 340,000 USDC from custom validation contracts due to improper security boundaries. Developers must manage specific storage access restrictions and gas estimation…
Aave V4 introduces a Hub and Spoke architecture to manage liquidity, but manual bridging requirements and complex integration updates for protocols like Yearn persist. Morpho's $2.1…