Ethereum founder recently announced a major breakthrough on social media—the long-standing "trilemma" of blockchain has been solved. This dilemma refers to the challenge of simultaneously achieving decentralization, security, and scalability, which has been regarded as the "impossible triangle" in the industry for years.

According to official disclosures, the key to breaking the deadlock lies in the implementation of two core technologies. One is Data Availability Sampling (PeerDAS), which has already gone live on the mainnet. This technology was introduced at the end of last year and significantly enhanced the network's data capacity. The other is ZK-EVMs, a new generation execution engine that combines zero-knowledge proofs with the Ethereum Virtual Machine. It has now reached production-level performance, needing only further refinement on security details.

Progress in technology also outlines a clear timeline. Starting from 2026, Ethereum's gas limits are expected to see a substantial increase; between 2027 and 2030, ZK-EVMs will gradually become the mainstream method for block validation. The core Ethereum developer emphasized that this solution has been a decade in the making—first proposed in 2017 with the idea of data availability, and now finally reaching code-level verification.

For market participants, this means that the scalability bottleneck of the Ethereum network is likely to be systematically addressed in the medium term. As gas costs decrease and throughput increases, the operational efficiency of ecological applications will see a qualitative leap, which could have a profound impact on the development of DeFi, NFTs, and other on-chain applications.