Morning Edition · Wednesday, August 5, 2026Published at 1:44 AM EDT · New York
Ethereum Researchers Argue Statelessness Creates a New Centralization Point
A proposal on Ethereum's research forum says planned upgrades will leave few parties holding full state, and offers a distributed alternative to specialized state providers.
A post on Ethereum's research forum makes an argument that runs counter to the direction of the network's own roadmap. As statelessness and history expiry reach mainnet, most nodes will stop storing the full state and will verify blocks usi…
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State Costs Decide How Decentralized Chains Stay
As blockchains scale, the cost of storing and serving state rather than raw execution speed determines how many independent parties can verify a chain, pushing networks toward either distributed state schemes or a small set of commercial providers.
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