Ethereum researchers propose "Block-in-Blobs" solution to alleviate validator data burden

Foresight News reported, according to The Block, that Ethereum researchers have proposed EIP-8142 "Block-in-Blobs," a solution that encodes the entire execution payload transaction data into the blobs introduced by EIP-4844. This approach replaces validator downloads of full transaction payloads with data availability sampling and cryptographic commitments, thereby reducing bandwidth requirements and standardizing fees under the "data gas" model. Under this design, in future zkEVM scenarios, zero-knowledge proofs ensure execution correctness, while blobs guarantee data availability, preventing the risk of data being deliberately hidden and passed by consensus based solely on proofs.