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Cancun/Deneb (Dencun)

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Proto-danksharding: blobs slash Layer 2 costs.

Meta EIP: EIP-4844Deneb (CL) + Cancún (EL)(EIP-8133)Activated 2024-03-13Block 19,426,587
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About Cancun/Deneb (Dencun)

Cancun (with the consensus-layer Deneb) delivered proto-danksharding through EIP-4844 blobs, enabling Layer 2 solutions to post data more economically. This upgrade reduced rollup costs by orders of magnitude and laid crucial groundwork for full danksharding scalability.

Canonical Meta EIP: EIP-4844— Official specification track & scope container for Cancun/Deneb (Dencun).
Name Origin: Derived from Deneb (CL) and Cancún (EL)— per Hardfork Naming Conventions (EIP-8133)

Core EIPs Included

6

EIPs that are part of the activated upgrade on mainnet.

EIP-1153

Transient storage opcodes

Full proposal & spec
EIP-4788

Beacon block root in the EVM

Full proposal & spec
EIP-4844

Shard Blob Transactions

Full proposal & spec
EIP-5656

MCOPY - Memory copying instruction

Full proposal & spec
EIP-6780

SELFDESTRUCT only in same transaction

Full proposal & spec

EIP Composition Timeline

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CFI
PFI
DFI
115347884844565667807516484411534788565667807516484411534788565667807516484411534788565667807516Mar 13, 24Feb 15, 24Jan 15, 24Nov 15, 23

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