Ethereum Releases Scaling Roadmap: What's Different This Time?
Ethereum has released a detailed scaling roadmap, outlining both short-term and long-term strategies to expand network capacity without compromising security or decentralization.
In the short term, key upgrades include block-level access lists and ePBS (enabled in the upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade) to allow parallelized block validation and more efficient use of slot time. Gas repricing and the introduction of multidimensional gas will separate execution costs from state creation costs, significantly increasing gas limits for execution while controlling state growth. A new "reservoir" gas mechanism will ensure backward compatibility with the EVM.
For long-term scaling, Ethereum will rely on two core technologies: Blobs and ZK-EVM. PeerDAS will be iterated to achieve ~8 MB/sec data throughput, enabling Ethereum block data to be directly written to blobs. This, combined with ZK-SNARKs, will allow validation without full execution or data download.
ZK-EVM adoption will be phased: from initial client support in 2026, to wider node adoption in 2027, and eventually a 3-of-5 mandatory proof system requiring multiple attestations for block validity. The long-term vision includes continued improvements in formal verification and potential VM-level changes.
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