Data Availability (”DA”) is a hot topic now that EIP-4844 is live! There are a few major players in the space, and all of them take similar approaches but with a few differences. We'll take a look at EigenDA, Celestia, Avail, and Arbitrum AnyTrust. But first, let's start off with a bit of background information.

The Tableland Studio is officially launching! We opened up beta access to the Studio around 6 months ago, and since then, we’ve been working with developers to enhance its functionality.

Today, the Dencun upgrade went live! This brings EIP-4844 (and others) to Ethereum mainnet and the long-awaited Proto-Danksharding aka “blob” support. Blobs are a new transient storage option that expires after ~2 weeks. Up to this point, L2 chains would post transaction data from the L2 back to Ethereum L1 as calldata at some interval to ensure the data is made available onchain. The Dencun changes how L2s interact with the L1; instead of posting rolled-up data as calldata, it’s now posted as a blob.

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In 2012, Chris Dixon wrote that just as oil powered the Industrial Age, data is the fuel of the Information Age. I believe that by the end of 2024, we will all realize that synthetic data is the clean energy.

We’re looking forward to a vibrant week of conversations, presentations, and activations with our ecosystem partners and friends. We’d love to see you there! Here are some of the gatherings on our agenda:

Farcaster is a “sufficiently” decentralized social network that’s modeled off of Twitter/X but rooted in web3. Part of its success has been the team’s approach toward building a scalable and UX-focused application, or as the co-founder puts it…

Textile has built an experimentally verifiable data layer called Basin, which lets anyone create “vaults” that act as a data container for arbitrary data. A vault is created by an EVM-compatible wallet (on Filecoin FVM), thus, granting the account write ownership to the vault. As data is pushed to the vault, it’s registered onchain as an append-only log for all mutations associated with the vault.

DePINs are transforming the landscape of physical infrastructure, but managing their vast and diverse data sets efficiently and securely remains a major challenge. At Tableland, we're tackling this head-on, pioneering innovative solutions that can reshape DePIN data management, and enable enable new, more useful ways of utilizing data.