DeFi· ★★★★· bullish·

Ethereum activates EIP-4444, cutting node sync time to under half a day

  • —EIP-4444 went live on July 8, 2025, capping history retention at roughly 82,000 epochs, or about one year
  • —Disk requirements fell by 300–500 GB, letting a full node run on under 0.5 TB of storage
  • —New nodes now sync in under half a day instead of several days
  • —Support shipped in Geth v1.16.0, Nethermind 1.32.2, Besu 25.7.0, Erigon v3.0.12 and Reth v1.5.0
Why it matters: Lowering the barrier to running a node strengthens Ethereum's decentralization, though historical data is now distributed rather than universally replicated.
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Source: Crypto Briefing
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