Ethereum roadmap, L1/L2 scaling, account abstraction and security milestones
Key Questions
What upgrades are included in Ethereum's Glamsterdam?
Glamsterdam is in final devnet testing with ePBS, block-level access lists, and gas repricing. FOCIL for censorship resistance is slated for the 2027 Hegotá hard fork.
What does Vitalik's Lean Ethereum roadmap propose?
It outlines recursive STARKs, post-quantum crypto, multidimensional gas, and new state architecture targeting 10x cost reduction from 2026-2030. State expiry via Verkle trees and EIP-4444 is a key focus.
How does Solana's Alpenglow upgrade improve performance?
Alpenglow replaces PoH and Tower BFT with Votor and Rotor for 100ms finality. It has 98% validator approval and targets Q3 2026 mainnet.
What is BNB Chain's new L1 focused on?
It targets high-frequency trading and AI agents with JIT compilation, strength reduction, and no public mempool. This complements upgrades like Solana Alpenglow.
What privacy and quantum features are in Ethereum's pipeline?
EIP-8182 proposes native L1 privacy, while quantum-resistant crypto is planned at ~7 cents per account. Vitalik emphasizes post-quantum migration and NIST-aligned standards.
What milestones are upcoming for Cardano and Celestia?
Cardano's node 9.0.0 release signals the imminent Chang hard fork. Celestia's V9 upgrade halves block time to 3s and adds advanced DA modules.
What is ERC-8335 proposing?
ERC-8335 enables account-level transfer authorization via off-chain signatures. It extends EIP-712 for gasless relaying in smart contract wallets.
How is Sui experimenting with high throughput?
Sui processed $65B in stablecoin transfers in five days with gasless features. A 6M TPS AI agent experiment used off-chain tunnels to explore machine economy scenarios.
Hegotá and Glamsterdam planning remain unsettled while Base’s ZK-stack shift, Arbitrum’s proposed ZK settlement, Gnosis’s rollup transition, Solana’s Agave and slot-time changes, BNB Pasteur, and other upgrades reshape execution and settlement infrastructure. New focus areas include Ethereum’s draft post-quantum deposit path for non-BLS credentials, the EIP-8130 split into EIP-8398/8399/8400, authenticated UTXO discovery requirements, client API inconsistencies, EIP-7702 exploit vectors, and wallet migration work.