🌋 Vitalik Buterin Targets 100,000 TPS in Ethereum's Evolution
posted 17 Oct 2024
On October 17, Vitalik Buterin published a blog post detailing Ethereum’s 2023 roadmap, titled The Surge, along with his vision for the future of the blockchain. He explains how Ethereum aims to achieve greater scalability while preserving decentralization through a mix of technological advancements.
Ethereum The Surge roadmap Source: vitalik.eth.limo
Buterin’s most notable claim is Ethereum’s ambition to reach over 100,000 transactions per second (TPS), working in tandem with L2 solutions. Current data from L2Beat shows Ethereum’s TPS hovering around 15, while rollups push that number past 160 at times.
Ethereum and rollup throughput comparison Source: l2beat.com
One of the approaches to meet this goal is expanding the memory slot size to 16MB, which could potentially raise TPS to approximately 58,000.
Buterin is also exploring Plasma as a scaling method, where operators publish off-chain blocks and submit Merkle roots on-chain (as opposed to rollups, which store the full block on-chain).
Reaching the 100,000 TPS mark is feasible with a combination of solutions, but obstacles still exist. Buterin highlights the importance of keeping Ethereum decentralized and secure at the L1 layer, ensuring that key Ethereum traits are inherited by L2 networks, and fostering seamless interoperability across L2s.
One of Buterin’s key objectives is for Ethereum to function as a single cohesive ecosystem, not as 34 disconnected blockchains.
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