Ethereum has blobs. Where do we go from here?

Buterin with a State of Ethereum update after the successful Dencun hard fork to activate EIP-4844 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 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.