#VitalikETHRoadmap On February 27, 2026, Vitalik Buterin published a long article on Ethereum Research titled "Hyper-scaling state by creating new forms of state."
In this article, Vitalik Buterin further outlines Ethereum's scaling roadmap. This piece does not merely discuss Ethereum scaling from a technical perspective, but rather provides a comprehensive, phased architectural approach designed to lay the foundation for Ethereum’s continued network capacity growth over the coming years.
Vitalik points out at the beginning of the long-form post, "To scale Ethereum over the next five years, three resources need to be scaled":
- Execution resources: EVM computation, signature verification, etc.
- Data resources: sender, receiver, signature, etc. of the transaction
- Status resources: account balance, code, storage
The first two have short-term and long-term expansion plans.
For execution scalability, short-term gains of 10-30x will be achieved through Block Access Lists (BAL), ePBS, and gas fee repricing, while long-term gains of approximately 1000x will come from ZK-EVM. For certain specific types of computations—such as signatures and SNARKs/STARKs—off-chain aggregation can improve performance by up to 10,000x.
For data resources, short-term growth of approximately 10-20x will be achieved through P2P improvements and multidimensional gas, while long-term growth of approximately 500x will be realized through Blobs + PeerDAS.
Short-term expansion focuses on making Ethereum run faster. Currently, Ethereum is slow because its validation method is sequential—transactions are checked one after another. If one transaction gets stuck, the entire validation process halts.
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In this article, Vitalik Buterin further outlines Ethereum's scaling roadmap. This piece does not merely discuss Ethereum scaling from a technical perspective, but rather provides a comprehensive, phased architectural approach designed to lay the foundation for Ethereum’s continued network capacity growth over the coming years.
Vitalik points out at the beginning of the long-form post, "To scale Ethereum over the next five years, three resources need to be scaled":
- Execution resources: EVM computation, signature verification, etc.
- Data resources: sender, receiver, signature, etc. of the transaction
- Status resources: account balance, code, storage
The first two have short-term and long-term expansion plans.
For execution scalability, short-term gains of 10-30x will be achieved through Block Access Lists (BAL), ePBS, and gas fee repricing, while long-term gains of approximately 1000x will come from ZK-EVM. For certain specific types of computations—such as signatures and SNARKs/STARKs—off-chain aggregation can improve performance by up to 10,000x.
For data resources, short-term growth of approximately 10-20x will be achieved through P2P improvements and multidimensional gas, while long-term growth of approximately 500x will be realized through Blobs + PeerDAS.
Short-term expansion focuses on making Ethereum run faster. Currently, Ethereum is slow because its validation method is sequential—transactions are checked one after another. If one transaction gets stuck, the entire validation process halts.
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