Ethereum Foundation researcher: Ethereum L1 will gradually improve in the future, and L2 will see significant performance improvements in the coming months

BlockBeats news, on December 1st, Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake posted on X, stating that four years ago today, the Ethereum beacon chain was born, with only 500,000 ETH staked in the initial stage. Although it did not bring direct benefits to users at the beginning, it has gradually grown into one of the most powerful foundations in blockchain history. Looking to the future, Drake believes Ethereum has the opportunity to become the settlement layer of the value internet. Although the beacon chain is still not perfect, the road to upgrades in the coming years will still be difficult, including improving the review system and MEV processing, reducing staking deposits, increasing finality speed, intelligent issuance, achieving smartwatch-level full-chain verification, and post-quantum security. At the same time, outside the consensus layer, there is hope to achieve full Sharding in the data layer, and native Rollup in the execution layer. Drake stated that many L1 improvements will be gradually released in the next few years, and improvements such as post-quantum security may require a comprehensive redesign. L2 solutions will provide significant performance improvements in the coming months, including fast user experience, low fees and unlimited throughput, synchronous composability, etc.