{"document_id":"BLC-STUDY-0098","slug":"eip-4844","title":"Shard Blob Transactions","authors":"Vitalik Buterin, Dankrad Feist, Diederik Loerakker, George Kadianakis, Matt Garnett, Mofi Taiwo and Ansgar Dietrichs","year":2022,"date_label":"2022","publisher":"Vitalik Buterin, Dankrad Feist, Diederik Loerakker, George Kadianakis, Matt Garnett, Mofi Taiwo and Ansgar Dietrichs","paper_type":"Design paper","category":"Scaling","topics":["Scaling"],"source_url":"https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-4844","source_label":"EIP-4844","legacy_pdf_path":null,"sha256":null,"sha256_note":"No hash is published. This build does not store those PDF bytes, so a checksum would be invented. Where a legacy path exists, it points at the Internet Archive copy of the old library.","version":"Source cited by the 2022 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.","doi":null,"rights_status":"Official external source only","source_status":"Official source","use_status":"Metadata and commentary only. The reading is the study page.","licence":null,"licence_label":"No licence recorded. Rights status under review.","full_text":null,"full_text_reason":"Full text is not published on this page. Public availability is not a licence to republish a document. Blockchain Lab has not recorded a licence that permits an HTML transcription, a training set, or a retrieval corpus of the paper. Text on this page is Blockchain Lab's own wording, or a pointer to a study that is also Blockchain Lab's wording.","editorial_line":"A new transaction type carries a blob: a large chunk of data that consensus nodes hold briefly and that the execution layer cannot read byte by byte. Rollups are the intended user. The blob is not cheap forever, and it is not the rollup's proof.","canonical_url":"https://blockchainlab.com/whitepaper/eip-4844","record_url":"https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/eip-4844","study_url":"https://blockchainlab.com/whitepaper/eip-4844","last_reviewed":"2026-10-01","last_checked":"2026-10-01","relationships":[{"rel":"Canonical reading","label":"EIP-4844 study","href":"/whitepaper/eip-4844"},{"rel":"Related paper","label":"KZG commitments","href":"/whitepaper/kzg"},{"rel":"Related paper","label":"Fraud and data availability proofs","href":"/whitepaper/fraud-and-da"},{"rel":"Related paper","label":"Celestia","href":"/whitepaper/lazyledger"}]}