Episode 108 - Fork Choice Rule
A fork choice rule is part of the blockchain consensus mechanism and it is used to find out the canonical chain for adding new blocks.Fork choice rule becomes relevant when there is a fork caused by n...
8 Jan 20243min
Episode 107 - Are Rollups also Blockchains?
Rollups are L2 scaling mechanisms where transaction execution is done offchain in the rollup node or sequencer. The state is updated on the L1 based on this execution. Rollup nodes also publish transa...
18 Dec 20233min
Episode 106 - What is Liquid Staking?
When users stake their tokens to provide security and validation in a PoS network, those tokens are locked for the duration of staking. The users can’t use staked tokens for anything else. This is nat...
11 Dec 20234min
Episode 105 - What is Data Sharding?
Sharding in blockchain is of two types — execution sharding and data sharding. There could be other types in the future, the crypto space evolves quickly.In episode 41, what I explained was primarily ...
4 Dec 20235min
Episode 104 - Data Availability Sampling
To scale blockchains, we need scalability solutions like rollups. To make sure that the rollups are doing the right thing, we need data availability. And to ensure that data availability is done right...
27 Nov 20234min
Episode 103 - What are Validiums?
Validiums are L2 scaling solutions similar to ZK Rollups with a basic difference that they use a separate data availability layer instead of posting rollup data on the execution layer (Ethereum mainne...
20 Nov 20234min
Episode 102 - What is Blobspace?
There is a new term in the crypto land — blobspace.Before understanding blobspace, let’s first do a quick refresher on data availability. Check out Episode 88 of the podcast.https://episodes.blockshot...
13 Nov 20234min
Episode 101 - What is Blockspace?
Just a couple of days ago, in a work call, someone asked me the difference between blockchain and blockspace.Blockspace is a bit of a abstract concept. The capacity to fit transactions in a block.Chec...
6 Nov 20234min
