Thanks to Barnabé Monnot, Danny Ryan, and participants to the RIG Open Problem 3 (Rollup Economics) for helpful discussions and feedback. EIP-4844 introduces two main components to the Ethereum protocol: (1) a new transaction format for “blob-carrying transactions” and (2) a new data gas fee market used to price this type of transactions. This analysis focuses mainly on the data gas fee market and its key parameters. We first discuss the relation between the 4844 and 1559 fee mechanisms and th...