Dencun Upgrade
What is the Dencun Upgrade?
Dencun is the next planned network upgrade on Ethereum Mainnet
which will implement Proto-Danksharding with EIP-4844.
This introduces transactions that can shard "blobs" of data for scaling L2 chains.
Dencun is a combination of two upgrades: (1) Deneb, the name for Consensus Layer upgrade, and (2) Cancun, the name of the Execution Layer upgrade.
This upgrade will center around EIP-4844, but will also include a few other proposals.
EIPs Considered For Inclusion
EIP-4844
EIP-4844: Shard Blob Transactions introduces a new transaction format for “blob-carrying transactions” which contain a large amount of data that cannot be accessed by EVM execution, but whose commitment can be accessed. The format is intended to be fully compatible with the format that will be used in full sharding.
EIP-1153
EIP-1153: Transient storage opcodes introduces transient storage opcodes, which manipulate state that behaves identically to storage, except that transient storage is discarded after every transaction. In other words, the values of transient storage are never deserialized from storage or serialized to storage. Thus transient storage is cheaper since it never requires disk access.
EIP-5656
EIP-5656: MCOPY - Memory copying instruction provides an efficient EVM instruction for copying memory areas.
EIP-4788
EIP-4788: Beacon block root in the EVM introduces commits to the hash tree root of each beacon chain block in the corresponding execution payload header. Store each of these roots in a contract that lives in the execution state and add a new opcode that reads this contract.
EIP-6780
EIP-6780: SELFDESTRUCT only in same transaction changes the functionality of the SELFDESTRUCT opcode. The new functionality will be only to send all Ether in the account to the caller, except that the current behaviour is preserved when SELFDESTRUCT is called in the same transaction a contract was created.
EIP-7044
EIP-7044: Perpetually Valid Signed Voluntary Exits lock validator voluntary exit signature domain on Capella for perpetual validity. Currently, signed voluntary exits are only valid for two upgrades.
EIP-7045
EIP-7045: Increase max attestation inclusion slot increases max attestaton inclusion slot to the last slot in `N+1` where `N` is the epoch containing the attestation's slot.
EIP-7516
EIP-7516: BLOBBASEFEE opcode adds an opcode that returns the value of the blob base-fee of the current block it is executing in. It is the identical to EIP-3198 (BASEFEE opcode) except that it returns the blob base-fee as per EIP-4844.
EIP-7514
EIP-7514: Add Max Epoch Churn Limit updates the maximum validator growth rate from an exponential to a linear increase by capping the epoch churn limit.
In the section below you can find more resources providing information on the Dencun Upgrade.
Updates
Oct 2023 : Launched EIP-4844 Devnet v11 (specs)
Oct 2023 : Launched EIP-4844 Devnet v10 (specs)
Sept 2023 : Launched EIP-4844 Devnet v9 (specs)
Aug 2023 : Launched EIP-4844 Devnet v8 (specs)
Jun 2023 : Launched EIP-4844 Devnet v7 (specs)
Jun 2023 : Launched EIP-4844 Devnet v6 (specs)
Apr 2023 : Launched EIP-4844 Devnet v5 (guide)
Jan 2023 : Launched EIP-4844 Devnet v4 (spec)
Jan 2023 : Launched EIP-4844 Devnet v3 (spec & tracker)
Oct 2022 : Launched EIP-4844 Devnet v2 (guide)
Oct 2022 : Launched EIP-4844 Devnet v1 (guide)
Infrastructure Code for EIP-4844 Devnets
