In the early days of blockchain, each node that was running the Bitcoin network downloaded and stored the entire blockchain and also processed the transactions. With increased demand from applications, scaling solutions were required, which led to solutions like rollups, and lite nodes that did not download the entire data, but depended on the full nodes. This has created a need to address data availability in this scaling landscape.
Data availability - Key to Trustless Blockchains
Data availability - Key to Trustless…
Data availability - Key to Trustless Blockchains
In the early days of blockchain, each node that was running the Bitcoin network downloaded and stored the entire blockchain and also processed the transactions. With increased demand from applications, scaling solutions were required, which led to solutions like rollups, and lite nodes that did not download the entire data, but depended on the full nodes. This has created a need to address data availability in this scaling landscape.