TechFlow News: On April 8, according to The Block, Ethereum researchers are exploring the “Block-in-Blobs” proposal (EIP-8142), which aims to encode block execution payload data into blobs. Validators can verify data availability via Data Availability Sampling (DAS) without downloading the full dataset—reducing bandwidth pressure and improving scalability. In zkEVM contexts, this proposal also addresses the gap where zero-knowledge proofs cannot guarantee data availability, and proposes unifying execution gas and blob data usage under a single “data gas” framework.
Separately, Biconomy, in collaboration with the Ethereum Foundation, has proposed ERC-8211, enabling multi-step operations to be executed sequentially under a single signature—reducing failed transactions and optimizing DeFi interaction experiences.
