Ethereum’s Fusaka upgrade: Scaling rollups without breaking the core
The Fusaka upgrade focuses on scaling rollups via PeerDAS, delivering focused, high-impact changes efficiently without compromising decentralization.Summary
Ethereum's upcoming Fusaka upgrade marks a shift toward delivering focused, high-impact upgrades every six months rather than massive overhauls. The central feature is EIP-7594, Peer Data Availability Sampling (PeerDAS), which changes how nodes handle rollup data by only requiring validators to verify smaller, sampled pieces instead of entire data blobs, thereby reducing duplication and bandwidth.
Fusaka also introduces a "blob-parameter-only" schedule, allowing pre-planned increases to blob capacity without requiring a full hard fork, which is crucial for the rollup-centric roadmap. This upgrade rebalances the symbiotic fee relationship between Layer 1 and Layer 2, aiming for fairer pricing when utilization is low, which users should experience as cheaper gas and less congestion.
Crucially, the upgrade was designed to scale capacity without compromising core values; it respects the hardware limitations of home stakers. Success will be measured by the secure deployment of the upgrade and the ecosystem's subsequent utilization of the new data capacity.
(Source：Cointelegraph)