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@michaelsproul michaelsproul commented Jul 17, 2025

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A different (and complementary) approach for:

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This PR adds a flag to set the DA boundary to the Deneb fork. The effect of this change is that Lighthouse will try to backfill all blobs.

Most peers do not have this data, but I'm thinking that combined with trusted-peers this could be quite effective.

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  • Should we turn on genesis-backfill whenever complete-blob-backfill is turned on? I'm inclined to say no, because users may want to backfill blobs only to e.g. 5 months (standard block backfill distance).

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