What are blobs? The latest Ethereum network upgrade, Dencun, included EIP-4844: Shard Blob Transactions. In short, rollups (L2) can now more cheaply include a batch of transactions on Mainnet Ethereum (L1). A new transaction type was created to handle these "blobs" of data that represent activity on another

Included in the (beta) release of web3.py v7 are some important and exciting updates to the asynchronous providers: * The AsyncIPCProvider is live. * WebsocketProviderV2 has graduated from beta and been renamed to WebSocketProvider (note the capital S). * The original WebsocketProvider has been deprecated and renamed to LegacyWebSocketProvider. In this post,

[Last update: May 9, 2024] UPDATE: WebsocketProviderV2 has been polished and released as WebSocketProvider in web3.py v7. Updated context here. We're happy to announce the release of a new WebSocket provider, WebsocketProviderV2, within web3.py v6.7.0! This post will give you a quick introduction to