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Ethereum has its own roadmap for handling data, including an initial step known as “proto-danksharding,” but developers of the blockchain have been slow to realize the plan, and in the meantime several independent networks like Celestia, EigenLayer’s EigenDA, Avail and even the rival layer-1 blockchain NEAR have sprung up to provide their own data-availability solutions.