Many L1 projects have turned Ethereum's speed and cost issues into opportunities, but significant progress has also been made in improving the main chain. With the challenges arising from the post-Merge surge, recent plans have focused on near-term steps like "The Verge" and "The Purge." Alongside rollups, L2s are now seen as key to reducing pressure on the main chain. As we head into 2025, do you think Ethereum's most important milestone will be advancements in L2s or protocol-level optimizations?
What's the Ethereum roadmap looking like beyond 2025? Beyond The Merge...
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Reminds me of how Apple transitioned from PowerPC to Intel chips back in 2006—it wasn’t just about swapping out the processor, but rebuilding the entire ecosystem around it. Ethereum’s doing something similar with The Verge and The Purge: while The Merge cut the power cord from PoW, these next phases are about streamlining the *architecture itself*.
So yeah, I’d bet the real 2025 milestone isn’t just *more* L2 rollups piling up transactions, but whether protocol-level optimizations—like statelessness or Verkle trees—actually kick in and make L1 the lightweight layer it’s supposed to be. Without those, L2s are just patchwork Band-Aids. The moment those optimizations stabilize, you’ll see both sides thrive together, but first comes the hard part: proving the base layer can shed its baggage.