A place for talking about the Ethereum Virtual Machine on Farcaster.

Can calldata (eventually) really support p2p storage like blobs? I haven’t got a ton of faith in ipfs.

And what would be the implications for onchain gen art (eg: Artblocks) if calldata was dropped after 18 days?

Short term: some assets are not pinned and maintained, and are lost.

Long term: tools like iroh replace ipfs; few people left to maintain ipfs assets. also concern w.r.t. centralization of hosted nodes—I’ve found ipfs nodes tricky to host w/o any issues.

Ethereum

Reminder: the "blobs get deleted after 18 days" thing is super overrated.

think the idea is for full nodes to store all state instead, effectively making Ethereum a 2-class system.

think the idea is for full nodes to store all state instead, effectively making Ethereum a 2-class system. 

https://warpcast.com/vitalik.eth/0x16cf2401

it’s likely that ethereum will implement state expiry eventually as well - not just calldata dropped, but historical storage as well 🤠 (recoverable via proof)

onchain maxis don’t like to acknowledge this 😌

I like to think about ethereum as a way to agree on truth at a specific point in time rather than an everlasting decentralized database. It likely wouldn't be sustainable in the long run.
Many NFT projects already store just a hash of the image onchain, and then use less decentralized solutions to store the raw image.

Is it because the generative seed is stored as part of minting tx calldata? Any ways to store it as a state? 🤔