Purge is a key stage in the development of Ethereum, the developers swear. An update involves removing old unnecessary information about the history of transactions on the network. In addition to reducing the amount of data to be stored, Purge will significantly reduce the hard drive requirements for node operators and the technical infrastructure of the Ethereum protocol, Buterin says.
The introduction of the EIP-6780 proposal during the Dencun update eliminated most of the functionality of the SELFDESTRUCT code, simplifying the protocol and adding new security guarantees. After implementing EIP-6780, the maximum number of storage slots can be edited in one block (approximate gas limit/5000). The developers hope that a new network improvement proposal will eliminate the SELFDESTRUCT code entirely in the near future.
As part of the Purge update, there is an improvement to EIP-4444 that will limit the amount of historical data stored – so nodes will be able to delete historical blocks that are more than a year old. The old data will only be needed when a network peer needs to synchronize with the beginning of the chain or upon special request. This way, when confirming new blocks, a fully synchronized node will not require historical data that is older than 365 days. Buterin is confident that EIP-4444 can significantly increase the decentralization of Ethereum nodes.
The co-founder said that the Geth client recently removed thousands of lines of code, abandoning support for networks running on the Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus algorithm, as Ethereum switched to another method of confirming transactions – Proof-of-Stake (PoS). After the Dencun update, the 18-day blob storage window will reduce the node's data throughput to 50 gigabytes. Pre-compilation contracts that are used to solve complex problems that cannot be implemented using the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) will also require cleaning.
In March, after the deployment of the Dencun update, fees on Ethereum's second layer networks decreased significantly. At the same time, the daily number of transactions in the Base network exceeded 2 million.
Source: Bits
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