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MASTERING THE FINAL BOSS IN BLOCKCHAIN SCALABILITY: STATE GROWTH

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There are three main components to blockchain bottlenecks – execution, which is solved via parallel processing and faster VMs, data, which has been remedied through EIP-4844, and DA layers like Celestia, and state. Ethereum's state growth, the amount of data needed to be stored by nodes, leads to bloat and slower transaction times, and rollups do not solve the problem. Fuel's approach is to leverage the UTXO transaction model and state minimized techniques to add more capability to Ethereum rollups.