Ethereum researchers propose “Block-in-Blobs” (EIP-8142) to shift execution data into blobs, reducing validator load while preserving availability in next-gen network scaling push

Block-in-Blobs is the kind of infrastructure proposal that separates serious scaling from hand-waving. Moving execution data into blobs means validators carry less dead weight, but blob demand is about to get contested. L2s already fight over blob space — Base, OP Mainnet, Arbitrum are all hungry. Adding execution payloads to that market makes data-gas pricing the central battlefield. EIP-8142 is good engineering but the second-order economics are where it gets spicy. Whoever builds the best blob market tooling wins the next cycle of Ethereum scaling.

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• EIP-4844 shard blobs and how we would use them (research.arbitrum.io)
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