A Quick Look at Ethereum’s Official Roadmap for the First Quarter of 2023
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Cooperate with Shanghai upgrade
The most important move of Ethereum this year is the upcoming Shanghai upgrade, and this is the first time since the Beacon Chain (beacon chain) was launched to support ETH extraction and allow stakers to receive rewards.
To this end, the Ethereum official website will develop a launchpad to simplify this step as much as possible. On the launchpad page, there are not only detailed step-by-step instructions, but also development guides for various environments.
The main process includes steps such as selecting a client, generating a private key, uploading and depositing data, linking a wallet, generating a summary, and trading, and each step will be described in detail.
Taking client selection as an example, Ethereum.org also provides client configuration guides in multiple languages, including Java (Besu), Geth (Go), Erigon (Go), and C#/.Net (Nethermind), as well as chapters Various development environments including third-party service provider Infura.
In order to improve the decentralization of network nodes and improve the anti-censorship capability of the network, the Ethereum official website encourages developers to configure their own clients as much as possible, rather than relying entirely on integrated suites such as Infura.
On this basis, the official website of Ethereum will also undertake more educational work. In view of the fact that after the Shanghai upgrade, the withdrawal of pledged ETH will become a permanent function of Ethereum, the official website of Ethereum will add guiding content for ordinary users, explaining Withdrawal workflow.
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Go mainstream
In the planning of the official website of Ethereum, Ethereum should not only explore the use in the blockchain world, but also "go out" and introduce it, expand communication with the external mainstream world, and actively absorb new development methods and technologies to Push Ethereum to the public eye.
Introducing more AI capabilities
In the previous community plan of the Ethereum official website, an important task was the multilingual translation of official website documents, including technical documents and daily articles. The collective cooperation of volunteers has covered mainstream languages, but the update is not timely and the translation is not enough. exact question.
For example, in Q3 of 2022, the internationalization of the Ethereum Foundation blog requires translation support in multiple languages. In order to make the blog more accessible to non-English users, some content has been appropriately cut.
In this roadmap update, the Ethereum official website plans to use more machine translations to improve the accuracy of translations. Although this proposal is still under discussion, it is enough to expand the spread of Ethereum.
Compared with translation, the threshold for AI picture matching is not so high. The style of picture matching on the Ethereum official website has always been clear. In 2022, Text 2 Image (text to image) models, such as DALL-E 2, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, has demonstrated the ability to create works of art.
The Ethereum official website made it clear that in Q1, it will explore the use of these tools to create more illustrations for it, and strive to obtain a better user experience through storytelling with pictures and texts, and reduce the dependence on manpower.
Towards mainstream development
In this update, the Ethereum official website will support Geth as its own client more vigorously. In Q4 last year, Geth implemented some new functions and tests. In Q1 this year, it will continue to complete the remaining functional support.
Geth (go-ethereum) is the Go implementation of Ethereum. Geth is also one of the earliest Ethereum clients, and it is also the development client with the highest proportion at present, accounting for about 70% of the share.
In addition, the Ethereum official website will also allow developers to participate in Google Summer of Code to do more preparation and support work. Unlike Ethereum developers who are limited to the blockchain field, Google Summer of Code is a global online programming program, focused on bringing new contributors into the open source space.
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Miscellaneous: Design and community improvements
In addition to being developer-oriented and coordinating with the Shanghai upgrade, the Ethereum official website will also carry out more preparations for user experience, the most critical of which is to improve and enhance the design system, mainly including:
1. The introduction of open design will attract more community members to participate in it;
2. Restructure the design system and use the current mature components to reduce the pressure of redesign;
3. Deploy the UI library to comply with W 3 C modern standards and unify with the overall Ethereum style
4. Update the email subscription function, and add an email API subscription mechanism in addition to the previous RSS subscription mechanism;
5. Open the position of community administrator to better coordinate community work and promote community activity.
The quarterly plan of the Ethereum official website this time highlights related matters related to the upgrade of the Ethereum mainnet. The description and development of the pledge and withdrawal functions are the most important work priorities. In addition, push Ethereum to a more mainstream The field of development is also the focus of its work.
