Justin Drake, a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, posted on the Gradually growing into one of the strongest foundations in blockchain history.
Looking to the future, Drake believes that Ethereum has the opportunity to become the settlement layer for the Internet of Value. Although the beacon chain is still not perfect, the road to upgrades in the next few years will be difficult, including improving censorship and MEV processing, reducing staking deposits, increasing finalization speed, intelligent issuance, achieving smart watch level full-chain verification, and Post-quantum security. At the same time, outside of the consensus layer, it is hoped to achieve complete sharding in the data layer and native Rollup in the execution layer.
Drake said many L1 improvements will be released gradually over the next few years, and improvements like post-quantum security may require a complete redesign. L2 solutions will deliver significant performance improvements within months, including a fast user experience, low fees and unlimited throughput, simultaneous composability, and more.