As Bitcoin prepares for the halving in April, Ethereum also brings a surprise: Dencun arrives on March 13.
What is it? An update that includes 9 changes (EIP), but the star is EIP-4844. This brutally reduces what L2s pay to write on Ethereum.
The numbers that matter:
Base: two-digit penny costs → single digit
Arbitrum, zkSync, Scroll: similar savings
Final goal: 100k TPS (transactions per second)
Why does it matter? With cheaper gas, new possibilities open up: frictionless on-chain games, cheaper DeFi, even AI + crypto.
The risk: new primitives = new bugs. But with several past testnets, it seems solid.
After Dencun come the phases “Surge”, “Scourge”, “Verge”, “Purge” and “Splurge” (yes, that's what it's called) in Buterin's roadmap. Each one focused on scalability, decentralization, and cleaning up the protocol.
TL;DR: Ethereum says “see you on L2” and makes it cheaper to be there.
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Dencun: Ethereum's bet to reduce costs on Layer 2
As Bitcoin prepares for the halving in April, Ethereum also brings a surprise: Dencun arrives on March 13.
What is it? An update that includes 9 changes (EIP), but the star is EIP-4844. This brutally reduces what L2s pay to write on Ethereum.
The numbers that matter:
Why does it matter? With cheaper gas, new possibilities open up: frictionless on-chain games, cheaper DeFi, even AI + crypto.
The risk: new primitives = new bugs. But with several past testnets, it seems solid.
After Dencun come the phases “Surge”, “Scourge”, “Verge”, “Purge” and “Splurge” (yes, that's what it's called) in Buterin's roadmap. Each one focused on scalability, decentralization, and cleaning up the protocol.
TL;DR: Ethereum says “see you on L2” and makes it cheaper to be there.