The Protocol: New Ethereum scaling plans
Vitalik Buterin proposed new Ethereum scaling plans focusing on near-term throughput boosts and long-term cryptographic shifts.Summary
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin detailed a new strategy for scaling the blockchain, emphasizing near-term capacity increases while preparing for a long-term transition to advanced cryptography and data-heavy "blobs." In the short term, Ethereum can safely increase throughput by allowing nodes to check block parts simultaneously and optimizing block construction via ePBS (in the Glamsterdam upgrade) to fit more transactions without instability. Buterin also advocates rethinking gas fee calculation, arguing that temporary computing usage should cost less than permanently adding data that all nodes must store. The article also covers OKX launching an AI-focused OnchainOS toolkit for autonomous crypto trading agents, NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin asserting that AI agents will become the primary users of blockchain, and a governance clash on Bitcoin regarding BIP-110, a proposal to restrict non-monetary data in transactions.
(Source：CoinDesk)