#ETH **Ethereum's Future: Scaling, Security, and Sustainability**
Ethereum’s roadmap post-"Merge" focuses on solving scalability, security, and usability challenges. Key upgrades include:
1. **The Surge**: Introducing *Danksharding* (proto-danksharding via EIP-4844) to boost scalability. This uses "blob transactions" to reduce layer-2 rollup costs, making transactions faster and cheaper.
2. **The Scourge**: Tackling MEV (Miner Extractable Value) centralization risks and ensuring fairer transaction ordering.
3. **The Verge**: Implementing *Verkle Trees* for stateless clients, enabling nodes to operate with minimal storage and enhancing decentralization.
4. **The Purge**: Simplifying Ethereum’s codebase by removing legacy data, reducing node operation costs.
5. **The Splurge**: Continuous optimizations for network efficiency and user experience.
These upgrades aim to achieve 100,000+ transactions per second, near-zero fees, and quantum resistance, solidifying Ethereum as the backbone of Web3. Innovations like account abstraction (ERC-4337) will also improve wallet usability. With these steps, Ethereum is evolving into a scalable, eco-friendly, and user-centric platform for decentralized applications.
