Scroll will launch Darwin upgrade on August 21, which is expected to reduce gas fees by 34%

According to an official announcement from Scroll on August 8th, the Ethereum Layer2 network Scroll will launch the long-awaited Darwin upgrade on August 21st, 2024. The purpose of this upgrade is to reduce gas fees by 34% by using a single aggregated proof instead of multiple batches of gas fees. The Darwin upgrade will bundle multiple batches of proofs into a single validity proof, reducing verification costs. This improvement will be achieved by introducing new batch encoding formats and bundling concepts.The specific schedule for this upgrade includes:1. Deploying the upgrade on the Scroll Sepolia testnet on August 14th.2. Executing the contract upgrade on the Scroll mainnet on August 21st.The security of this upgrade has been audited by Trail of Bits.