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Vitalik Buterin

By popular demand, an updated roadmap diagram for 2023!

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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

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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

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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.

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The Scourge has been redesigned somewhat. It's now about fighting economic centralization in PoS in general, in two key theaters: (i) MEV, (ii) general stake pooling issues. See also: https://notes.ethereum.org/@vbuterin/staking_2023_10 https://ethresear.ch/t/9022 https://ethresear.ch/t/17944

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Significant progress in the Verge; Verkle trees are coming closer to being ready for inclusion. See: https://verkle.info "Increase L1 gas limit" was removed to emphasize that the limit can be raised *at any time*; no need to wait for full SNARKs esp for small increases.

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Instead of removing "increase L1 gas limit", I'd suggest keeping "increase L1 gas limit incrementally", and then "significant increase in L1 gas limit" following fully SNARKed Ethereum (I'd call it ZK-Ethereum) "Ethereum has abandoned scaling the L1" seems to be a very common misconception in my experience

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Tbh scaling the tx (execution) capacity of the L1 *has* been abandoned. None of the upgrades in distant memory nor Dencun improves this aspect at all. Now that changes to eip1559/PoS/DA capacity have been shipped, I hope eip4444 become a major focus of the next HF, + regular async gas limit increases.

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But that's precisely what Verkle Trees and SNARKing Ethereum do - scale the transaction (execution) capacity of the L1. Like I said, it's a common misconception, so I wish the roadmap were clearer. Let me write a quick blog post

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Here, as promised, how The Verge leads to Ethereum L1 scaling https://polynya.mirror.xyz/epju72rsymfB-JK52_uYI7HuhJ-W_zM735NdP7alkAQ

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