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Data availability

The ability to obtain the data needed to verify or reconstruct a blockchain system's state.

PLAIN-ENGLISH DEFINITION

In more detail

A commitment tells you which data a system refers to, but does not make that data downloadable. Users or nodes still need a route to obtain it. Data availability concerns that access when needed; preserving the same data indefinitely as an archive is a related but different job.

IN THE WILD

How you might use it

Your rollup node downloads the published batch data and reconstructs balances instead of taking the operator's word for the state.

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Short name
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