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Story: Ethereum (ETH) Ecosystem gearing up to the next set of EIP proposals for Berlin

By Dan Saada

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Ethereum Improvement Proposals Up Next

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Ethereum will continue to rule 2021 with its open source platform to write and distribute decentralized applications.

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The internet should be recognized as a public utility.  And, therefore, Ethereum have recently partnered with Cloudflare to provide better services for eth.

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On January 18th, Ethereum Name Service are transitioning their ENS + IPFS gateway service hosted at eth.link to a version developed and run by Cloudflare.

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The transition is not to an already existing Cloudfare product to manage the eth.link service, rather they have been working exclusively for over a year with Cloudfare to develop…

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The major purpose of the eth.link service is to make it possible for users to append “.LINK” to the end of a .

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Users are wondering if there are plans to support other decentralized storage layers?

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Berlin, the next hard fork is due with the list of 4EIPs grabbing attention they are:  EIP-2929: Gas cost increases for state access opcodes * EIP-2930: Optional Access List…

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EIP-2929: Storage accessing opcodes have historically been underpriced & malicious txs which take 20-80 seconds to execute can be created today.

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EIP-2930: Roughly 0.18% mainnet txs will be broken by EIP-2929. In an effort to mitigate this breakage, this EIP introduces a new type of tx which can specify which storage slots…

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EIP-2718: This EIP specifies a new format for txs which begin with a "discriminator" to allow for clients to interpret different txs.

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EIP-2315: The last EIP scheduled for Berlin adds support for subroutines. Traditionally, contracts that wanted to emulate this functionality need to juggle general stack data…

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Expecting to see more of meet ups regarding these proposals this year.  Hopefully another busy year for Ethereum.

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