Ethereum Foundation Researcher: Ethereum L1 will be improved year by year, and L2 will have significant performance improvements in a few months.

CoinVoice recently learned that Justin Drake, a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, posted on X, stating that four years ago today, the Ethereum Beacon Chain was born, with only 500,000 ETH staked in the initial stage. Although it did not initially bring direct benefits to users, it has gradually grown into one of the most powerful foundations in blockchain history.

Looking to the future, Drake believes that Ethereum has the opportunity to become the settlement layer of the value internet. Although the beacon chain is still imperfect, the road to upgrade in the next few years will still be difficult, including improving the review system and MEV processing, reducing staking deposits, increasing final confirmation speed, intelligent issuance, achieving full-chain verification at the level of smart watches, and post-quantum security. At the same time, outside the consensus layer, it is hoped to achieve complete Sharding at the data layer and native Rollup at the execution layer.

Drake said that many improvements to L1 will be gradually released in the coming years, and improvements like post-quantum security may require a complete redesign. L2 solutions will provide significant performance improvements within a few months, including fast user experience, low fees, unlimited throughput, and synchronous composability. [Original link]