📅 July 31 | Global (Ethereum Foundation)
In a document that is already generating waves of debate across the ecosystem, Justin Drake, a leading researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, presented his 10-year vision for the protocol, detailing an ambitious—and controversial—roadmap toward a “lean, efficient, and radically scalable” Ethereum.
The goal? Nothing less than reaching 10,000 transactions per second, guaranteeing 100% uptime, and reinventing the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) to make it modular, more powerful, and compatible with new architectures.
📈 This is what Ethereum would look like in 2035, according to Justin Drake
In his public proposal, Drake outlines an Ethereum based on four essential pillars:
1. Reducing L1 (base layer) functions to make it leaner, focusing solely on consensus and data availability.
2. Radical delegation to L2, where applications, execution, and smart contracts would migrate almost entirely, with a rollup-native ecosystem.
3. EVM 2.0, a virtual machine reinvented from the ground up, with better account abstraction, gas efficiency, and support for modern languages.
4. Perfect uptime: thanks to modularization, client redundancy, and better failover mechanisms.
Drake also aims for an Ethereum that runs more sustainably, with lightweight validators, reduced costs, and minimal operational complexity for the average user.
“The vision is not maximalist, but minimalist: less Ethereum in the core, but much more global impact,” Drake wrote.
Although the document isn't an official plan, it does reflect current discussions within the Ethereum Foundation and hints at the ecosystem's future technical priorities. Some compare this vision to what "ETH 2.0" once was, but more pragmatic and focused on modularity.
Topic opinion:
This vision strikes me as a return to its cypherpunk roots, but with technical maturity.
Drake isn't promising miracles, but rather a viable path: Ethereum as a functional, lean, and ultra-stable skeleton upon which millions of solutions can be built without bloating the base layer. It's a cultural shift as much as it is a technical one.
Of course, execution will be anything but simple. If the ecosystem fails to align incentives, standards, and governance, this vision could remain on paper. But if it does... we'd be looking at a new backbone for the decentralized internet.
💬 Do you think the network will really reach 10,000 TPS and perfect uptime?
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