diff --git a/core/txpool/blobpool/blobpool.go b/core/txpool/blobpool/blobpool.go
index 87aefb9756..2c50809716 100644
--- a/core/txpool/blobpool/blobpool.go
+++ b/core/txpool/blobpool/blobpool.go
@@ -1325,6 +1325,19 @@ func (p *BlobPool) GetBlobs(vhashes []common.Hash) []*types.BlobTxSidecar {
 	return sidecars
 }
 
+func (p *BlobPool) HasBlobs(vhashes []common.Hash) bool {
+	for _, vhash := range vhashes {
+		// Retrieve the datastore item (in a short lock)
+		p.lock.RLock()
+		_, exists := p.lookup.storeidOfBlob(vhash)
+		p.lock.RUnlock()
+		if !exists {
+			return false
+		}
+	}
+	return true
+}
+
 // Add inserts a set of blob transactions into the pool if they pass validation (both
 // consensus validity and pool restrictions).
 //
diff --git a/core/txpool/legacypool/legacypool.go b/core/txpool/legacypool/legacypool.go
index a69ff70251..bf1014d9e0 100644
--- a/core/txpool/legacypool/legacypool.go
+++ b/core/txpool/legacypool/legacypool.go
@@ -1068,6 +1068,12 @@ func (pool *LegacyPool) GetBlobs(vhashes []common.Hash) []*types.BlobTxSidecar {
 	return nil
 }
 
+// HasBlobs is not supported by the legacy transaction pool, it is just here to
+// implement the txpool.SubPool interface.
+func (pool *LegacyPool) HasBlobs(vhashes []common.Hash) bool {
+	return false
+}
+
 // Has returns an indicator whether txpool has a transaction cached with the
 // given hash.
 func (pool *LegacyPool) Has(hash common.Hash) bool {
diff --git a/core/txpool/subpool.go b/core/txpool/subpool.go
index 70595934a5..90f1d5d9e5 100644
--- a/core/txpool/subpool.go
+++ b/core/txpool/subpool.go
@@ -137,6 +137,10 @@ type SubPool interface {
 	// retrieve blobs from the pools directly instead of the network.
 	GetBlobs(vhashes []common.Hash) []*types.BlobTxSidecar
 
+	// HasBlobs returns true if all blobs corresponding to the versioned hashes
+	// are in the sub pool.
+	HasBlobs(vhashes []common.Hash) bool
+
 	// ValidateTxBasics checks whether a transaction is valid according to the consensus
 	// rules, but does not check state-dependent validation such as sufficient balance.
 	// This check is meant as a static check which can be performed without holding the
diff --git a/core/txpool/txpool.go b/core/txpool/txpool.go
index 5bc83bab58..666fdddcdb 100644
--- a/core/txpool/txpool.go
+++ b/core/txpool/txpool.go
@@ -323,6 +323,31 @@ func (p *TxPool) GetBlobs(vhashes []common.Hash) []*types.BlobTxSidecar {
 	return nil
 }
 
+// HasBlobs will return true if all the vhashes are available in the same subpool.
+func (p *TxPool) HasBlobs(vhashes []common.Hash) bool {
+	for _, subpool := range p.subpools {
+		// It's an ugly to assume that only one pool will be capable of returning
+		// anything meaningful for this call, but anything else requires merging
+		// partial responses and that's too annoying to do until we get a second
+		// blobpool (probably never).
+		if subpool.HasBlobs(vhashes) {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+// ValidateTxBasics checks whether a transaction is valid according to the consensus
+// rules, but does not check state-dependent validation such as sufficient balance.
+func (p *TxPool) ValidateTxBasics(tx *types.Transaction) error {
+	for _, subpool := range p.subpools {
+		if subpool.Filter(tx) {
+			return subpool.ValidateTxBasics(tx)
+		}
+	}
+	return fmt.Errorf("%w: received type %d", core.ErrTxTypeNotSupported, tx.Type())
+}
+
 // Add enqueues a batch of transactions into the pool if they are valid. Due
 // to the large transaction churn, add may postpone fully integrating the tx
 // to a later point to batch multiple ones together.
diff --git a/eth/catalyst/api.go b/eth/catalyst/api.go
index 13b85fc454..1c5390e7e3 100644
--- a/eth/catalyst/api.go
+++ b/eth/catalyst/api.go
@@ -593,6 +593,13 @@ func (api *ConsensusAPI) GetBlobsV2(hashes []common.Hash) ([]*engine.BlobAndProo
 	if len(hashes) > 128 {
 		return nil, engine.TooLargeRequest.With(fmt.Errorf("requested blob count too large: %v", len(hashes)))
 	}
+
+	// Optimization: check first if all blobs are available, if not, return empty response
+	if !api.eth.TxPool().HasBlobs(hashes) {
+		return nil, nil
+	}
+
+	// pull up the blob hashes
 	var (
 		res      = make([]*engine.BlobAndProofV2, len(hashes))
 		index    = make(map[common.Hash]int)
diff --git a/miner/worker.go b/miner/worker.go
index d80cb8913b..3423015247 100644
--- a/miner/worker.go
+++ b/miner/worker.go
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/core/txpool"
 	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/core/types"
 	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/core/vm"
+	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/crypto/kzg4844"
 	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/log"
 	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/params"
 	"github.com/holiman/uint256"
@@ -390,6 +391,17 @@ func (miner *Miner) commitTransactions(env *environment, plainTxs, blobTxs *tran
 			continue
 		}
 
+		if miner.chainConfig.IsOsaka(env.header.Number, env.header.Time) {
+			if sidecar := tx.BlobTxSidecar(); sidecar != nil {
+				if len(sidecar.Blobs) != len(sidecar.Proofs)*kzg4844.CellProofsPerBlob {
+					log.Warn("Ignoring V1 blob transaction post-Osaka", "hash", ltx.Hash)
+					txs.Pop()
+					continue
+				}
+			}
+
+		}
+
 		// Error may be ignored here. The error has already been checked
 		// during transaction acceptance in the transaction pool.
 		from, _ := types.Sender(env.signer, tx)