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An overview of problems and solutions relating to data availability in Ethereum

Data availability Copy .md Copy .md Edit page (opens in a new tab) On this page "Don't trust, verify" is a common maxim in Ethereum. The idea is that your node can independently verify that the information it receives is correct by executing all the transactions in the blocks they receive from peers to ensure that the changes proposed precisely match those computed independently by the node. This means nodes do not have to trust that the senders of the block are honest. This is not possible if data is missing. Data availability refers to the confidence a user can have that the data required to

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