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The founder of the Ethereum project, Vitalik Buterin, unveiled a new roadmap for Ethereum a few weeks ago. His goal is to fix the weaknesses created by the migration from ETH1.0 (PoW) to ETH2.0 (PoS) regarding security and decentralisation. Vitalik, therefore, acknowledges that Ethereum has become centralised to the point where it can become dangerous, a risk that many people warned The Merge posed.
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The key to this change lies in whether these new modifications will be enough to make Ethereum a network with guarantees of decentralisation and resistance to censorship. We should wait a while to find out, as the new Ethereum roadmap is extensive and applies technologies that could be a success if well implemented. Without further ado, let’s take a look at the phases of this roadmap one by one:
First Phase: The Surge, truly scaling Ethereum
The Surge is the first phase of this new roadmap and aims to increase Ethereum’s scalability. Its construction relies on a series of improvements. Among them, the following stand out:
- The activation of EIP-4844 (Proto-Danksharding): Proposed improvement consisting of enabling a new transaction format for Ethereum. Transactions can have “data BLOBs” that can be transparently integrated into the nodes and their operation. This is…
