The Future of Ethereum | Barnabé Monnot, Co-Lead of Research at the Ethereum Foundation
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Blob Economics and Data Availability
Ethereum has separated its gas market into regular L1 gas and a separate market for blobs, allowing independent pricing for different economic activities. Blobs offer a cheaper option for data posting, but this data is not permanently stored, unlike data posted through regular mainnet transactions. Rollups previously used mainnet transactions for data posting before blobs became available. Economic equilibrium dictates that the blob market fee should be at least as low as the regular market fee, otherwise, users would revert to posting data through regular transactions, leveraging the long-term data availability.
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