The Ethereum team presented an updated network development roadmap, shifting the focus to three key areas: throughput, user experience, and base-layer security.
Technical specialists considered the results of last year's Pectra and Fusaka hard forks, adopting a comprehensive approach when preparing the upcoming Glamsterdam and Hegotá updates.
Unifying Scaling Efforts
Last year brought the Pectra update with EIP-7702 support to the network, while the December Fusaka update introduced PeerDAS technology, allowing the community to raise the gas limit to 60M.
Now the new Scale division has combined efforts to expand layer one throughput together with BLOB scaling.
The group plans to increase the gas limit beyond the 100M mark, delivering scaling components as part of the upcoming Glamsterdam hard fork.
Improving User Experience
The Improve UX track focuses on native account abstraction.
Proposals EIP-7701 combined with EIP-8141 embed smart account logic directly into the protocol, eliminating additional gas costs while preparing the network for the post-quantum era.
Layer One Hardening
The team of the new Harden the L1 track will handle post-quantum protection of the execution layer, development of test environment infrastructure, and increasing network censorship resistance through the FOCIL mechanism.
Developers scheduled the deployment of the massive Glamsterdam hard fork for the first half of this year, while the Hegotá update launch takes place later.