Pamela Martinez

Bitcoin is an open source censorship-resistant peer-to-peer immutable network. Trackable digital gold.

[Portal @PortaltoBitcoin]

More Social Tasks, More Sparks

The more people hear about Portal to Bitcoin, the better. We’re adding new social quests and bonus Sparks are up for grabs during community events in Discord. Keep an eye out! 👀

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@PortaltoBitcoin

[Portal @PortaltoBitcoin]

One Leaderboard to Rule Them All 🏅

This time, we’re running a single general leaderboard where Sparks accumulate over the next four weeks.

All rewards are distributed at the end of the event. More consistency, more fairness.

[Portal @PortaltoBitcoin]

Leaderboard Reset 🏆

We’re wrapping up Testnet V1 with 5,000 LiteNodes distributed to top participants! 🔥

Check the final rankings: https://t.co/s9gKnVxVcQ

Testnet V2 starts fresh—new leaderboard, new competition, new rewards. 🎯

[Portal @PortaltoBitcoin]

Portal Testnet V2 is LIVE! 🚨

The next phase of the Testnet is here. Here’s everything you need to know before diving in! 🧵👇

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@vagasatrsd Optimism Foundation seeks to shift the blockchain ecosystem towards a decentralized web by implementing permissionless protocols.

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@Olpilove Optimism Foundation focuses on decentralized web, replacing centralized entities with permissionless protocols to expand blockchain ecosystem.

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@XGamerZeroX The foundation seeks to improve the blockchain ecosystem by developing decentralized web protocols.

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@XGamerZeroX to handle the increased workload, but Optimism's Superchain solves this by using multiple blockchains.

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Superchain was introduced with the goal of integrating the Optimism Mainnet network with OP Chains, which are blockchains based on other OP Stack protocols. This integration aims to create a cohesive ecosystem focused on achieving internet-level scalability. All projects within the Superchain network will be built on OP Stack, a suite of tools designed to streamline the development process of Layer 2 blockchains. By sharing communication capabilities, security measures, governance structures, and network enhancements, Superchain aims to establish a robust foundation for blockchain projects to thrive. The Optimism Foundation envisions expanding the blockchain landscape to include a decentralized web, effectively transforming the internet by replacing centralized entities with a permissionless protocol. Superchain's architecture is designed for horizontal scalability, requiring the collaboration of multiple blockchains to function effectively. To achieve horizontal scaling, blockchains must be able to run in parallel, as the hardware requirements for syncing a blockchain linearly increase with the level of computation performed. However, traditional blockchain designs often encounter limitations, such as the need for new security models with each chain, resulting in heightened systemic risks when introducing new chains to the ecosystem.

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The Superchain initiative revolutionizes scalability in the Optimism network by merging with blockchains in the OP Chain ecosystem. Similar to Cosmos and Avalanche's subnet, Superchain combines Optimism Mainnet with OP Chains to create a seamless ecosystem for internet-level scaling. Projects on Superchain will utilize OP Stack for deployment and benefit from shared resources like communication abilities, security structures, and governance. Optimism Foundation aims to expand the blockchain ecosystem into a decentralized web, replacing central entities with permissionless protocols.

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Blob is a dedicated space for temporary data storage for Ethereum apps and Rollup. Ethereum initially focused on execution sharding but shifted to data sharding due to limitations. Data blobs are processed, stored, and verified by consensus nodes independently, benefiting Rollup the most.

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Blob is a specialized data storage solution for Ethereum applications, especially Rollup. Initially, Ethereum had plans for execution sharding, where different programs could be executed in separate shards. However, due to limitations and risks, developers shifted focus to data sharding and introduced "blobs" to address scalability issues for Rollups. Data blobs are processed, stored, and verified by consensus nodes independently from execution nodes, ensuring that EVM cannot access or store data in blobs. Rollup stands to gain the most from this upgrade.

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@liz__azs sharding. This allows multiple transactions to be processed simultaneously, increasing the network's capacity and throughput.

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@TheMatrixRecaga Execution shards are crafted for running programs, but Ethereum devs chose data sharding to improve scalability by splitting data processing across multiple shards.

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@1996Montjo Data sharding was chosen over execution sharding for Ethereum due to limitations. This approach involves dividing data into smaller, more manageable pieces for scalability.

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@1996Montjo Ethereum transitioned from program sharding to data sharding to improve scalability by distributing data processing tasks across multiple shards for increased efficiency.

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Following the successful deployment of the upgraded Dencun version, Layer 2 wasted no time in rolling out the update. Prominent projects such as zkSync, Starknet, Arbitrum, Base, and Optimism have all released updated versions. These projects have seen a notable decrease in transaction fees when sending ETH, largely attributed to a significant drop in data storage costs. Each execution shard can now be customized to run different programs. In light of various limitations and risks, Ethereum developers have opted to implement data sharding to address scalability issues with Rollups through the use of "blobs." Data blobs are processed, stored, and verified by consensus nodes on the consensus layer, independent of execution nodes on the execution layer. This means that EVM cannot access or store data in blobs, making Rollup the primary beneficiary of this upgrade. Data storage space is now sold in integer units of blobs, while regular transaction fees remain unchanged, with calldata costing 16 gas per non-zero byte and 4 gas per zero byte. The use of gas fee markets is reserved solely for transactions involving blobs.

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@DedeMedell Ethereum switched from execution sharding to data sharding due to limitations and risks, improving scalability and performance while distributing data across multiple shards.