Recently, Vitalik Buterin shared an interesting vision for the development of Ethereum, which contains many useful insights into where the network is headed. Essentially, he divided the entire scaling strategy into two parts — short-term steps and long-term plans.

Regarding the near future, everything will revolve around the Glamsterdam upgrade. There are several key improvements: first, access blocklists will be added for faster block verification; then, the ePBS mechanism will be implemented, providing more time for validation. Additionally, gas prices will be recalculated based on real-time execution. But the most exciting part is the introduction of multidimensional gas. This will allow different types of resource consumption to be separated and help address the state bloat problem that pressures the network.

Vitalik Buterin also mentioned an interesting point about state creation. During Glamsterdam, the costs associated with this will be separated from the standard gas limit, paving the way for larger contract deployments. The EVM will maintain compatibility through a reservoir mechanism, so all current calls and operations will continue to work as expected.

Furthermore, Ethereum will gradually transition to multidimensional gas pricing — a long-term strategy for economic sustainability while maintaining flexibility. ZK-EVM and blobs are on the horizon. Thanks to improvements like PeerDAS, blobs are expected to reach a throughput of 8 MB/sec, enabling direct block data verification without full downloads.

Overall, Vitalik Buterin paints a picture of gradual but confident development. Not a revolution, but evolution — this approach seems sensible for a network of this scale. It will be interesting to see how these plans are implemented.