Vitalik casually mentioned the "Ethereum One Year Leap Forward Plan": After L1 expansion, the throughput will pump 10 times.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has announced an L1 scaling plan that aims to increase throughput tenfold within a year, aiming to reduce fees, speed up transactions, and maintain decentralization. (Synopsis: Vitalik new proposal for Ethereum expansion: Gas Limit increases to reduce node requirements and create some stateless nodes) (Background supplement: Vitalik Publishes Ethereum Rollup Transition Mathematical Model: Three Stages Towards "Full Decentralization") Ethereum (Ethereum) co-founder Vitalik Buterin At the recent ETHGlobal Prague conference in Prague, a major plan was announced that is expected to increase the throughput of Ethereum Layer 1 (L1) tenfold in the next year or so, fundamentally solving the high transaction fees (Gas Fees) and intermittent congestion problems that have long plagued the Ethereum network. LATEST: Vitalik says Ethereum will scale L1 ~10x in a year, then take a “breather” before the next leap. pic.twitter.com/r06Svvy9cf — Cointelegraph (@Cointelegraph) June 1, 2025 Vitalik made it clear in his speech that the core goal of this scaling plan is to significantly increase network throughput, thereby effectively reducing transaction costs and speeding up processing. In this way, the user experience is fully optimized. In particular, he emphasized that scaling is not at the expense of the decentralization of the network, but at the same time as the performance jumps, ensuring the wide accessibility of node operations and the robustness of the network as a whole, which is very important for maintaining Ethereum as an open, permissionless public blockchain. Core focus of tenfold scaling To achieve Ethereum's "ambitious" tenfold scaling goal, Vitalik mentioned that the following points must be accomplished: Protocol-level optimization: This is a direct means to increase throughput, including the potential to increase the gas limit of a single block by 10 to 100 times (Gas Limit), and simultaneously improve the overall network transmission efficiency and transaction execution efficiency. Stateless Node (Stateless Nodes) and EIP-4444: The introduction of stateless nodes will allow nodes to cryptographically verify the validity of transactions without having to store a complete network state history. This technology will complement the EIP-4444 proposal, which proposes that nodes only need to store the last 36 days of blockchain historical data, greatly reducing the hardware specification threshold and storage burden for participating in network verification. This move is expected to make it easy for more individuals and small institutions to run nodes, further consolidating Ethereum's decentralized foundation. Distributed historical data storage network: In order to ensure the long-term availability and accessibility of old historical data after the implementation of EIP-4444, the Ethereum community plans to establish a distributed storage network composed of decentralized archive nodes (Archive Nodes), which is responsible for the preservation and management of historical data. Gas mechanism adjustment: The existing gas pricing mechanism will also be adjusted accordingly, which is expected to increase the gas cost of storage operations to curb the excessive expansion of blockchain state data; At the same time, reduce the cost of gas to perform complex calculations to encourage developers to write more efficient Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) opcodes. Future Upgrades: Fusaka Hard Fork: Looking to the longer term, the Fusaka hard fork upgrade, which is expected to be deployed around the end of 2025, is planned to introduce Verkle Trees and PeerDAS technology. As a new type of data structure, Verkle Trees can significantly improve the generation and verification efficiency of state proof, and further reduce the data storage pressure of nodes. PeerDAS, a protocol for decentralizing data availability for Rollup solutions, will provide a key foundation for a complete Danksharding scaling architecture that enables Layer 2 solutions to scale more powerfully. Vitalik admits that it is a challenge Vitalik Buterin admits that how to maintain and enhance the decentralization of the network while pursuing efficient scaling is still the core challenge facing the current situation. With this in mind, he advocates a "slow and stable (slow and steady)" development strategy to ensure that each upgrade is fully tested and widely agreed by the community to maintain the long-term security and stability of the network. Related reports The US SEC issued "Ethereum pledge" :P oS Stating non-securities trading, participants do not need to register No more dumping ETH? Ethereum Foundation borrows $2 million $GHO with Aave "Vitalik blurts out "Ethereum's one-year Great Leap Plan": Throughput will increase 10 times after L1 expansion" This article was first published in BlockTempo's "Dynamic Trend - The Most Influential Blockchain News Media".