Recently, I looked at the Ethereum scaling roadmap, and the more I see it, the more speechless I feel. The L2 side is making a lot of noise, and next week's upgrade will also add blobs and increase capacity, but the L1 itself hasn't changed at all, and the mainchain hasn't gotten any faster.

The official also brought out a gas limit for 2028 to scare people, saying it can only reach 200 million. Thinking about it, this is equivalent to directly admitting that the scalability of the mainchain is just left unattended. If this continues, in two years ETH's throughput will be directly reduced to 1/40 by SOL... and this is just considering capacity, not speed.

As for speed, ETH has no intention of improving at all. In contrast, SOL is already 30 times faster than Alpenglow and is expected to reach 80 times faster by Q1 2026... This gap looks more and more like a widening chasm.

My current feeling is: I used to think that ETH was slow but steady, but now it is slow and has no plans to speed up. How can a retail investor not shake their head? No matter how strong the ecosystem is, if the mainchain doesn't change, it will eventually be surpassed.