The researcher of the Ethereum Foundation, Dankrad Feist, warned that the base layer of ETH could slip into non-record in a decade, unless the community embraces a much more aggressive roadmap for chain scaling and the revision of the protocol. Writing in an article on the forum of Ethereum magicians, Feist introduces a PDE project which would preserve the network to a multi -year calendar of increase in the limit of pointed gas and additional architectural changes.
“I think it’s time to be unconventional, because the current way of doing things is likely to make Ethereum unrelated to the next 5 to 10 years,” said Feist at the start of his proposal.
Feist’s main concern is strategic. He insists that the main channel must remain “the economic center of Ethereum”, warning that the liquidity of liquid in an expansion constellation of layer 2 networks threatens the competitive position of the platform. “If L1 is unimportant and loses its attraction of liquidity and challenge, there will also be less reason for L2S to remain even attached to Ethereum,” he wrote, adding that rival ecosystems are “eager to obtain its market share” precisely by offering high-speed user experiences.
What should change for Ethereum?
On the technical level, the researcher highlights rapid progress in the evidence of zero knowledge of knowledge: “Prove that the Ethereum L1 blocks have become possible first, and is now cheap,” he notes, citing a current cost of evidence of only a few hundred via current dashboards. According to Feist, the ecosystem is on the right track to reach the unique evidence later this year, while the data evaillability sampling (DAS) via the Peerdas initiative “will also become reality”. Together, these breakthroughs open the door to “100x to 1000x the current scale while keeping the most important properties: verifiability and resistance to censorship”.
Feist underlines that the architecture of Ethereum nodes always reflects the design of Bitcoin in 2009, claiming that it must evolve in differentiated roles – certain lighter than today’s complete nodes, other renowned manufacturers or promotes “operating under a hypothesis of honesty to a single part.” The key to maintaining security and maintaining Ethereum unstoppable (is) that all types of Nodes can always be managed from home in certain places, “he wrote, refer to research calls led by the colleague of the Ethereum Barnabé Monnot Foundation.
Historically, Ethereum governance has preferred unbelievers, but Feist maintains that shortness now obsolescence. “Working upside down from an objective tends to have better results than to make progressive changes as they become possible,” he said, calling for hard coded targets rather than an open deliberation. Under his overview, the next Glamsterdam upgrade would favor delayed execution, shorter slots and “expiration of aggressive history”. The following forks over the next two years would add a parallel transaction execution, coded blocks to erase, a dedicated ZKEVM, useful execution charges inside the Blobs and the Focil mechanism to consolidate resistance to censorship.
Feist underlines that performance engineering must support the work of the consensus layer: “Having a concrete objective in mind will allow us to prioritize this work as well as concrete upgrades if necessary.” The databases and the mempools optimized for an increase in flow five times, the reasons could be “very different” of those designed for a hundred jumps.
Precifying a criticism that a broadband roadmap would transform Ethereum into a “data chain”, Feist rejects the label as superficial. “The fundamental value proposition of Ethereum is not the original stator, it is verifiability and resistance to censorship,” he says. While acknowledging that most users are already based on PRC termination points rather than self-managed nodes, he maintains that the verification of zero knowledge proof will facilitate the use of confidence, not more difficult. In addition, mechanisms such as Focil or minimum censorship proponents (MCP) could provide “better resistance to censorship than we have done today”.
Feist ends by emphasizing the “huge pits in the liquidity of Defi” by Ethereum and insists that colored applications always draw network effects from the proximity of layer 1. “At 100 times, the current scale, Ethereum L1 can take charge of a very wide range of value transaction, so that competition with it simply on the terms of scaling is no longer an interesting game to play”, he writes. The “end of game”, in its vision, is a base layer capable of treating the orders of magnitude more activity without sacrificing the determining guarantees of the protocol.
“We have to commit ourselves as soon as possible, both because manufacturers and applications need predictability, and because we must prioritize properly so that it can really be executed.”
At the time of the press, ETH exchanged $ 1,812.
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