# Ethereum has blobs. Where do we go from here?

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## What Jamie wrote

Buterin with a State of Ethereum update after the successful Dencun hard fork to activate [EIP-4844](https://www.eip4844.com) and enable blobs. In the last three years Ethereum has been through a heavy change curve including proof-of-stake and now blobs. These changes have allowed Ethereum to embrace a multi-chain Ethereum ecosystem solution going forward. 

> What this means to developers is simple: **we no longer have any excuse**. Up until a couple of years ago, we were setting ourselves a low standard, building applications that were clearly not usable at scale, as long as they worked as prototypes and were reasonably decentralized. **Today, we have all the tools we'll need, and indeed most of the tools we'll ever have, to build applications that are simultaneously [cypherpunk](https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/12/28/cypherpunk.html) and user-friendly**. And so we should go out and do it.

There is a lot of work to do on end-user UX. The crypto applications of the future need to not feel different. They should work similar to things that people are already familiar with, but have a decentralized backend. 

The table of "2010 v 2020 Ethereum" in this post is a great way to see what that difference looks like.

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