From 1477c0a4f6548adf5218230e20b1161f8eb578f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Auryn Macmillan Date: Sat, 18 May 2024 22:01:58 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] Fix link to wrong Portal --- posts/decentralization.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/posts/decentralization.md b/posts/decentralization.md index a2345288..869bdea8 100644 --- a/posts/decentralization.md +++ b/posts/decentralization.md @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ However, this arguments relies on dependence on a small number of large actors.
-For a long time, this work has been on the backburner; [Portal Network](https://www.portal.network/#/) exists, but realistically it has not gotten the level of attention commensurate with its importance in Ethereum's future. Fortunately, there is now strong interest in momentum toward putting far more resources into a minimized version of Portal that focuses on distributed storage, and accessibility, of history. This momentum should be built on, and we should make a concerted effort to implement EIP-4444 soon, paired with a robust decentralized peer-to-peer network for storing and retrieving old history. +For a long time, this work has been on the backburner; [Portal Network](https://www.ethportal.net/) exists, but realistically it has not gotten the level of attention commensurate with its importance in Ethereum's future. Fortunately, there is now strong interest in momentum toward putting far more resources into a minimized version of Portal that focuses on distributed storage, and accessibility, of history. This momentum should be built on, and we should make a concerted effort to implement EIP-4444 soon, paired with a robust decentralized peer-to-peer network for storing and retrieving old history. For state and ZK-EVMs, this kind of distributed approach is harder. To build an efficient block, you simply have to have the full state. In this case, I personally favor a pragmatic approach: **we define, and stick to, some level of hardware requirements needed to have a "node that does everything", which is higher than the (ideally ever-decreasing) cost of simply validating the chain, but still low enough to be affordable to hobbyists.** We rely on a 1-of-N assumption, where we ensure that the N is quite large. For example, this could be a high-end consumer laptop.