I just finished reviewing an interesting interview about the future of Ethereum, and there's a lot of useful information for understanding where the network is headed. Vitalik Buterin explained in detail how scaling will occur — it turns out, it's not a one-time event but a multi-stage strategy.

In the near future, everything will depend on the Glamsterdam upgrade. Significant improvements are planned: accelerated block verification through access lists, a new ePBS mechanism that provides more time for validation, and gas price recalculations based on real-time execution. But the most interesting part is the introduction of multidimensional gas to account for resource consumption differently. This should help address the network state bloat issue.

Vitalik Buterin also touched on contract deployment. With Glamsterdam, the costs of creating state will be separated from regular gas — meaning contract code can be larger without hitting limits. The EVM will remain compatible thanks to the reservoir mechanism, so old operations will continue to work smoothly.

Regarding long-term prospects, the focus shifts to ZK-EVM and blobs. Vitalik discusses a gradual transition to multidimensional gas pricing to ensure economic sustainability. With improvements like PeerDAS, blobs are expected to reach 8 MB/s data availability — enabling block data verification without full downloads.

Overall, it’s clear that developers are thinking not only about current issues but also building a long-term architecture. This scaling will happen gradually, but the direction is clear.