By popular demand, an updated roadmap diagram for 2023!

Here was the one from last year. Notice that it's actually quite similar! As Ethereum's technical path forward continues to solidify, there are relatively few changes. I'll go through the important ones.

Here was the one from last year. Notice that it's actually quite similar! As Ethereum's technical path forward continues to solidify, there are relatively few changes. I'll go through the important ones.

https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1588669782471368704

The role of single slot finality (SSF) in post-Merge PoS improvement is solidifying. It's becoming clear that SSF is the easiest path to resolving a lot of the Ethereum PoS design's current weaknesses.

See:

https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/280

https://ethresear.ch/t/17989

Significant progress on the Surge (rollup scaling) this year, both on EIP-4844 and from rollups themselves.

https://l2beat.com/scaling/summary continues to be a good page to follow.

Also, cross-rollup standards and interop has been highlighted as an area for long-term improvements.