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Tim Beiko & Justin Drake: The Sci-fi Roadmap to Ethereum

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Aug 15, 2023
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Justin Drake
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Tim Beiko
Tim Beiko, a Core Ethereum developer, and Justin Drake, a research scientist at the Ethereum Foundation, dive into Ethereum's expansive roadmap. They uncover insights about EIP-4844 and Proposer-Builder Separation while discussing statelessness and the influence of quantum computing on security. The duo emphasizes the role of venture capital in fueling Ethereum’s R&D and explores innovations like enshrined rollups and trustless mempools, revealing a future where fewer honest actors are needed for trustless operations.
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INSIGHT

Ethereum Roadmap Completion

  • Ethereum is 75-80% complete based on the original vision, but the roadmap has expanded.
  • New developments focus on protocol-adjacent phenomena like MEV and Layer 2s.
INSIGHT

Danksharding & Rollups

  • Dank sharding reduces Layer 2 transaction costs by implementing temporary data storage on Layer 1.
  • Layer 2s post transaction data to Layer 1, but only need it for a short time (e.g., seven-day exit window for optimistic rollups).
INSIGHT

Rollup-Centric Roadmap

  • Ethereum prioritizes Layer 2 friendliness to scale users from millions potentially to hundreds of millions.
  • Enshrined rollups, or native rollups, will enhance this by snarkifying the EVM.
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