I disagree with Charlie here. DAS has received little attention compared to other parts of the roadmap, but there has been a lot of progress over the past year. @fradamt had a great summay post (link below screenshot):

I disagree with Charlie here. DAS has received little attention compared to other parts of the roadmap, but there has been a lot of progress over the past year. @fradamt had a great summay post (link below screenshot): https://ethresear.ch/t/from-4844-to-danksharding-a-path-to-scaling-ethereum-da/18046

Ethereum protocol R&D. Admirer of emergent order.

By the way, why is Monad light years ahead of EF on actually scaling the EVM? 

It's hard for me to tell from the outside but it seems like either Monad are scamming/faking it or EF is a long way behind on making the EVM execute efficiently...