Original source: BitpushNews

Original source: BitpushNews

In the latest episode of the Bankless podcast, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin (hereafter referred to as V God) was invited to participate again. He introduced an Ethereum roadmap consisting of 5 major steps, which will be of great significance to the follow-up of Ethereum. will play a vital role in its survival and prosperity."To achieve ultimate decentralization and fully optimize scalability, Buterin said Ethereum must build"Blockchain data so that it can accommodate more users.

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The roadmap shared by Vitalik via Twitter"The first step is called"The Merge", it is a comprehensive transition from PoW to PoS, which will be completed in the first half of 2022. When asked when he thought the full merger would be possible, Vitalik replied:"

Maybe it will be done in six months as well."The second step is called"The Surge

, which aims to substantially increase the scalability, bandwidth, and overall capacity of Ethereum, especially on zk-rollup.

The third is called "The Verge," and it will allow more users to run nodes. V God explained that this is essentially to democratize the entire network participation process as much as possible, so that everyone can access and use it.

While Ethereum has made great strides in 2021, including the London hard fork and EIP-1559 that introduced the burning mechanism, high gas fees remain a looming issue."According to V God's description, with the help of the above two steps, the gas cost of Ethereum can be greatly reduced."。

If more transactions can be processed on the chain, it means that there is more space, there is no need for so-called gas wars, and eventually the transaction fee per user will drop significantly

When asked to comment on the progress Ethereum has made over the past 6 years. V God replied, "The current (progress) is only 50%. After the merger is completely completed, I can say that the progress can reach 60%. But once there is a complete sharding system, the progress can reach 80%."

Vitalik also added that he estimates that it will take another 6 years to fully realize everything described on the roadmap."Verge"surge followed by"(Verkle Trees), which allow more users to run nodes. V God said that this is essentially"。

Democratize as many participants as possible, making it accessible to anyone and everyone who wants to verify the validity of the chain"Endgame "Previously, at the beginning of December 2021, V God also published an article titled