EIP-8411 segmented payload broadcast cuts propagation to under 1 second
- —Median propagation of a 1 MiB payload fell from ~5 seconds to under 1 second
- —Tests covered 500 simulated nodes and 10 random network configurations
- —EIP-8411 splits the payload into 64 chunks with Merkle proofs
- —Tier 1 increases the volume of received bytes by roughly one third
Why it matters: Faster block propagation reduces consensus latency and reorg risk, which is important for scaling Ethereum.
Source: crypto.news