Ethscriptions are an alternative to smart contracts, which are prohibitively expensive for most users. Ethscriptions is a protocol that allows users to share information and perform computations on Ethereum L1 at extremely low cost. Ethscriptions achieve this by bypassing smart contract storage and execution, by applying deterministic protocol rules to "dumb" Ethereum call data to calculate state. The goal of Ethscriptions is to make decentralized computing accessible to ordinary users at an affordable price.