Vitalik Buterin outlines Ethereum's scaling plan with short-term gas optimizations and long-term ZK-EVM deployment.

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Vitalik Buterin outlined Ethereum’s scaling plan, focusing on a long-term crypto strategy. Short-term upgrades such as Glamsterdam, ePBS, and gas re-pricing aim to enhance parallel validation and align costs with execution time. In the long term, the roadmap includes ZK-EVM deployment and blob data processing. These steps support Ethereum’s long-term investment vision by balancing immediate efficiency with future scalability.

Odaily Planet Daily reports: Vitalik Buterin posted on X that Ethereum scaling is divided into short-term and long-term components. In the short term, the Glamsterdam upgrade will introduce block-level access lists to enable parallel verification, ePBS will allow a higher proportion of slots to be used for block verification, and gas repricing will ensure operation costs align with actual execution time. The multidimensional gas mechanism will be rolled out in phases: first, in Glamsterdam, the cost of "state creation" will be separated from "execution and calldata" costs, with state creation gas not counted toward the approximate 16 million transaction gas limit. At the EVM level, a "reservoir" dimension mechanism will be introduced, prioritizing the consumption of dedicated dimension gas by default and drawing from the reservoir only when insufficient; this will later transition to multidimensional pricing, allowing different dimensions to have distinct浮动 gas prices.

Long-term scaling includes two components: ZK-EVM and blobs. For blobs, the plan is to continuously iterate on PeerDAS, aiming to achieve a data processing capacity of approximately 8 MB per second, after which Ethereum block data will be directly incorporated into blobs. For ZK-EVM, implementation will proceed in phases: by 2026, validator clients supporting ZK-EVM will be available, enabling approximately 5% of the network to operate using it; by 2027, this will expand to a larger proportion of nodes, while formal verification efforts advance; once conditions are mature, the system will transition to a mandatory 3-of-5 proof mechanism, ultimately continuously enhancing the security and formal verification capabilities of ZK-EVM, including work on VM changes such as RISC-V.

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