Ethereum has recently encountered issues again in block verification.

On the early morning of March 28, Ethereum encountered yet another hiccup in block verification. However, the issue was swiftly resolved, and the network has returned to normal operation.

Community reports on social media platform X highlighted that during a brief period, the rate of missed Slot/Block verifications spiked to 13%.

Developer terence.eth attributed this incident to difficulties with the KZG algorithm's Blob extraction process. With EIP-4844 aimed at compressing data, the algorithm KZG is intended to enhance efficiency between Layer-1 and Layer-2 interactions without the need to store all transaction-related information and evidence within the blob.

Nevertheless, due to a sudden surge in transaction fees for Blobs, many blocks containing KZG functions were unable to generate Blobs. This phenomenon occurred approximately 20 times per day and peaked at 20 instances within an hour during Ethereum's block verification disruption.

Following the upgrade to Dencun, Blobs will operate under a separate gas fee market from other Layer-1 Ethereum activities. Analysts attribute the recent surge in Blob gas fees to "blobscription" activities—data carvings.

At the time of writing, the network has resumed normal block verification. In response to inquiries regarding whether Inscription was responsible for the network's issues, developer terence.eth clarified that:

"The blob sidecar was not released from the relayer. Unrelated to the inscription, but more blobs may have compounded the issue. The issue has been around since last week. I even mentioned it during the ACD. I'll let them provide more updates. A post-mortem is likely coming..."