Vitalik posts an article explaining Ethereum's scalability plan, covering short-term Gas optimization and long-term phased deployment of ZK-EVM

ChainCatcher News: Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin posted on X stating that Ethereum scaling is divided into short-term and long-term phases.

In the short term, the Glamsterdam upgrade will introduce block-level access lists for parallel validation, ePBS will allow larger slot utilization for block validation, and gas re-pricing will ensure operation costs align with actual execution time.

A multi-dimensional gas mechanism will be phased in, starting with separating the “state creation” cost from “execution and calldata” costs in Glamsterdam, with state creation gas not counting toward the approximately 16 million transaction gas limit. An “reservoir” dimension mechanism will be introduced at the EVM layer, prioritizing dedicated dimension gas consumption by default, drawing from the reservoir when insufficient, and later transitioning to multi-dimensional pricing with different floating gas prices for each dimension.

Long-term scaling includes ZK-EVM and blob components. For blob, ongoing iterations of PeerDAS aim to achieve about 8MB of data processing per second, with future Ethereum block data directly entering the blob.

For ZK-EVM, phased development is planned: by 2026, validator clients supporting ZK-EVM will be available, allowing about 5% of the network to rely on it; by 2027, the support will expand to a larger minority of nodes, alongside formal verification efforts; once conditions are met, a five-out-of-three proof mechanism will be adopted, ultimately enhancing ZK-EVM security and formal verification, including work on RISC-V and other VM changes.