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The canonical written form of 38 Ethereum terms — how each one is spelled and capitalized, which forms to avoid, and what it means.

Term	Category	Casing	Avoid	Also known as
batching	scaling	standard
blob	scaling	standard
blobspace	scaling	standard
bridge	scaling	standard
cross-chain	scaling	standard
DAC	scaling	uppercase		data availability committee
Danksharding	scaling	proper
data availability (DA)	scaling	standard		DA
data availability layer	scaling	standard		DA layer
data availability sampling (DAS)	scaling	standard		data availability sampling, DAS
erasure coding	scaling	standard
escape hatch	scaling	standard
fault proof	scaling	standard
forced withdrawal	scaling	standard
interoperability	scaling	standard
layer 2 (L2)	scaling	standard	Layer 2layer-2Layer-2	layer 2, L2
optimistic rollup	scaling	standard
PeerDAS	scaling	proper		PeerDAS, Peer Data Availability Sampling
plasma	scaling	standard
Proto-Danksharding	scaling	proper
prover	scaling	standard
rollup	scaling	standard
rollups	scaling	standard
sequencer	scaling	standard
settlement	scaling	standard
sidechain	scaling	standard
state channel	scaling	standard
state channels	scaling	standard
throughput	scaling	standard
validity proof	scaling	standard
validium	scaling	standard
verifier	scaling	standard
zero-knowledge	scaling	standard	zero knowledge	ZK
zero-knowledge proof	scaling	standard	ZK ProofZK proof	zero-knowledge proof, ZKP, ZK-proof
zero-knowledge rollup	scaling	standard
ZK-SNARK	scaling	fixed	zkSNARKzk-snarkZKSNARK
ZK-STARK	scaling	fixed	zkSTARKzk-starkZKSTARK
zkEVM	scaling	fixed	ZK-EVMzk-evmZKEVM

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