Buterin believes Ethereum can process 100,000 transactions per second in the future.
Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of the Ethereum network, has outlined several objectives crucial to the future development of the blockchain. These goals aim to improve The Surge, the second phase of Ethereum’s developmental roadmap, which focuses on scaling the network using rollups.
Buterin’s solutions aim to address the blockchain trilemma, improve data availability sampling, mature layer-2 (L2) proof systems, scale execution on the Ethereum layer-1 (L1) network, and enhance interoperability across L2 chains.
The Rollup-Centric Roadmap
The Surge roadmap has already achieved some successes, including increasing the Ethereum L1 data bandwidth, growing EVM-compatible rollups, and implementing sharding on L2 networks. However, these developments have come with unique challenges, and Buterin believes Ethereum developers must complete the rollup-centric roadmap while preserving the network’s robustness and decentralization.
The key goals of The Surge include at least 100,000 transactions per second on Ethereum and its L2s, maintaining the decentralization and robustness of the Ethereum L1, achieving maximum interoperability between L2s, and ensuring that some L2s inherit Ethereum’s core properties like trustlessness, openness, and censorship resistance.
Buterin’s Objectives For The Surge
The Ethereum founder proposed using a combination of data availability sampling and SNARKs to solve the blockchain trilemma. He believes the trilemma can be achieved via data availability sampling, which can be made possible by compressing data on the Ethereum network. Buterin also insisted that L2-proof systems need to become more trustworthy to mature.
Additionally, Buterin mentioned the challenge of users easily navigating the L2 ecosystem. He said some ways to make the L2 ecosystem feel like a unified Ethereum network include introducing chain-specific addresses, payment requests, and a standardized open protocol for cross-chain operations.
Finally, the computer programmer emphasized the importance of scaling both the Ethereum L1 and L2s, as developing only the layer-2 chains could pose risks to the entire ecosystem in the future.