Fashionista Vitalik came to the fashion capital Paris with his new bag to attend ETH CC and give a speech.

V God said that Bitcoin supporters believe that Bitcoin has completed 80%, but Ethereum supporters believe that Ethereum has only completed 40%. After the merger is expected to be completed in September this year, Ethereum will still only complete about 55%. %.

Merge is just a small step in the development of Ethereum, followed by Surge, Verge, purge, and splurge. In short, Ethereum is still very early, and the big move has not yet been released.

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Merge is not the final destination of Ethereum, the development path is:

Merge => Surge => Verge

Merge It is about transferring from POW to POS;

Surgeis about introducing sharding;

Vergeis about Verkle trees to help optimize storage on Ethereum and help reduce node sizes.

We are at a stage where Ethereum's capabilities are being made even more powerful through rapid changes to the protocol.

But eventually we will stop making rapid changes to the protocol and leverage systems like L2 to add more functionality to the Ethereum ecosystem.

L1 is for safety and reliability, and L2 is for fast iteration and execution.

Escape Velocity Theory:Once L1 is strong enough, L2 can do the rest.

Developers need rest, and new features take time to iron out and mitigate risk. (So, that's the reason for the slow progress?)

We need, short-term pain, long-term gain

Disable SELFESTRUCT

EIP-4444: Clients MUST stop serving headers, bodies, and receipts older than one year at the p2p layer.

Switch to verkle trees (store more data in less space)

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These are the things vitalik is afraid to do:

Increase support for multiple virtual machines and increase the complexity of consensus;

Solve base layer SNARKS instead of waiting for better circuit design;

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Where should the focus be?

Easy-to-use light clients, so anyone can run them;

Let everyone easily stake in Ethereum through a smaller decentralized stake pool;

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Long term goal:

Make Ethereum quantum resistant so you can't just run a quantum computer to generate someone else's private key;

If zkEVM works well, then make txn space in the base layer, so that the cost of rolling is greatly reduced;

Find stronger cryptography;

Finally, keep an open mind!