PANews reported on August 8 that according to the official announcement of Scroll, Ethereum Layer2 network Scroll will launch the highly anticipated Darwin upgrade on August 21, 2024. The upgrade aims to reduce the Gas fees of multiple batches through a single aggregated proof, thereby reducing Gas fees by 34%. The Darwin upgrade bundles multiple batches of proofs into a single validity proof, reducing verification costs. This improvement will be achieved by introducing a new batch encoding format and bundling concept.

The specific timetable for this upgrade includes:

1. Deploy the upgrade on the Scroll Sepolia testnet on August 14.

2. Execute the contract upgrade on the Scroll mainnet on August 21.

The security of this upgrade has been audited by Trail of Bits.