Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has announced a comprehensive and ambitious plan to significantly scale Ethereum's network capacity by 2025. The plan aims to increase Ethereum's transactional throughput to 100,000 transactions per second (TPS), a massive leap from current capacities.
The strategy focuses on advancing Layer-2 integrations and implementing innovative technologies such as blob scaling and proto-danksharding, designed to enhance both network bandwidth and transaction efficiency. Buterin's roadmap emphasizes scaling without compromising core Ethereum values like decentralization and neutrality.
A critical component of the scaling approach involves combining the network into a unified system and introducing single-slot finality, which is expected to reduce transaction finality times drastically—from approximately 15 minutes down to seconds—thus greatly improving the user experience.
Historically, Ethereum upgrades such as EIP-1559 and the Merge have spurred price volatility and increased Layer-2 adoption. This new scaling initiative is similarly anticipated to boost Ethereum's ecosystem dynamics, potentially strengthening its market position and attracting investment.
Buterin also highlighted the importance of maintaining Ethereum as the core ecosystem driver, warning about the risks of decentralization without utility. The proposed upgrades could reshape financial, technological, and regulatory aspects of the platform, advancing Ethereum towards a more scalable, interoperable, and decentralized future.