Vitalik posts explaining Ethereum's short-term and long-term scalability plans

CoinNetwork · 2026-02-27T15:35:45+00:00

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin introduced the Ethereum scalability plan on social media. In the short term, parallel verification and multi-dimensional Gas mechanisms will be implemented through the Glamsterdam upgrade. In the long term, the focus will shift to ZK-EVM and Blobs, with the goal of enhancing data processing capabilities and network security.

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2026-02-27 15:35:45

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CoinWorld News, February 27 — Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin posted on social media explaining Ethereum’s short-term and long-term scaling plans.

In the short term, the upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade will introduce block-level access lists for parallel validation and the ePBS feature. It will also introduce a multi-dimensional Gas mechanism, adding a “state creation Gas” dimension that does not count toward the approximately 16 million transaction Gas limit, allowing for larger contracts. The EVM will maintain two invariants and handle multi-dimensional Gas consumption through a “reserve pool” mechanism.

In the long term, the plan shifts to a multi-dimensional pricing model. Long-term scaling includes ZK-EVM and Blobs. For Blobs, ongoing iterations of PeerDAS aim to achieve about 8 MB/sec data processing capacity, with future Ethereum block data directly entering Blobs.

ZK-EVM will be developed in phases: by 2026, clients will allow validators to participate using ZK-EVM but will not be sufficient for the network to operate fully; by 2027, a larger proportion of the network will run ZK-EVM, focusing on formal verification and security improvements; when ready, a 3-of-5 proof system will be adopted, requiring blocks to contain three out of five proofs from different proof systems to be valid. At that point, all nodes (except index nodes) are expected to rely on ZK-EVM proofs.

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