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Story: Ethereum (ETH) Builders List of Who Received Funding in Q4 is Out

By Dan Saada

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The list of Ethereum builders who received funding in Q4 is out.  For those who received the funding it is really a best day.

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Lakshman Shankar, R&D at the Ethereum Foundation stated: There's been a lot of development on state size management in Ethereum.

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First, what's the problem? The Ethereum 'state' consists of all of the data necessary to process a new transaction.

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The key insight that motivates solutions to the problem is that Ethereum doesn't charge users of its storage 'rent'. It only charges them once.

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State expiry is the classic database cache approach socialized if a piece of state hasn't been touched for some amount of time, nodes don't have to store it anymore.

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If you squint, this sorta feels like user state rent! Because generating a witness requires the user to store the data they're proving the validity of, the user is now paying the…

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It's an elegant, indirect way to redirect who pays for storage.  'Regenesis' is a specific variant of this that creates fixed-time windows during which all state in that…

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