Vitalik Buterin sets ambitious target of 100,000 TPS in Ethereum's rollup-focused scaling plan

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Vitalik Buterin aims for Ethereum to reach 100,000 transactions per second across both L1 and L2 networks.
His blog post highlights the need for advancements in data availability sampling and scaling Ethereum’s base layer.

Vitalik Buterin has laid out Ethereum’s objective of accomplishing over 100,000 transactions per second (TPS) across both Layer 1 and Layer 2 networks as part of its long-term scaling plan. In a new blog post, Buterin emphasized the significance of a rollup-centric roadmap, mixing sharding with Layer 2 solutions to keep up decentralization while tending to the network’s scaling challenges.

Dubbed “The Surge,” the next phase of Ethereum’s roadmap aims to upgrade transaction speed through enhancements in data availability sampling. This strategy will permit the network to confirm information without each node requiring to download everything, focusing on 16 MB per data slot to accomplish up to 58,000 TPS—far beyond the current 375 kB per slot. Be that as it may, Buterin noted that indeed this enhancement might not meet the needs of applications like consumer payments and decentralized social networks.

For these high-volume, low-value apps, Buterin proposed utilizing Plasma, where administrators can distribute off-chain blocks and post data on-chain in little chunks. Another scaling focus is refining the mainnet by applying a gas limit strategy to increase capacity without weakening the decentralization that supports Ethereum’s credibility.

Buterin cautioned that a developing gap in scalability between Layer 1 and Layer 2 systems may hurt Ether’s value and destabilize the ecosystem. He investigated alternative ways to scale, such as bringing down gas costs for particular operations or presenting a more effective bytecode format called EOF to oversee computational fees.

While Ethereum’s scalability is making strides with recent updates, like the Dencun introduction of data blobs, Buterin recognized that the network still faces obstacles. His blog post also referred to past challenges, such as Ethereum’s 15-minute block finalization time and the high 32 ETH prerequisite for becoming a validator.

The detailed roadmap reflects Buterin’s strategy to adjust Ethereum’s performance enhancements with decentralization, guaranteeing it remains a strong and financially practical platform. As the network advances, Ethereum aims to handle increased demand from new sectors while protecting the core standards that make it a driving decentralized framework.