Making sense of the Ethereum roadmap

Ethereum has been taking a practical and adaptive approach to defining and adjusting its future roadmap. The original Ethereum 2.0 roadmap, defined in 2016-2018, was based on the monolithic concept where the blockchain does it all, achieving scalability through sharding and securing the system through PoS. The transactions are spread into 64 shards. It was a massive undertaking, and this complexity arises when interlinking transactions across shards and considering quadratic sharding, where a multi-layer sharding design may help increase the capacity of the blockchain.

Since the beginning of Ethereum, PoS has been the ideal state and ultimate goal in the Ethereum community. Implementing a PoS consensus and smoothly transitioning from PoW to PoS have been the most challenging and painstaking efforts in Ethereum’s history. Although this took much longer to implement, the merge of Ethereum 1.0 and Ethereum 2.0 and the implementation of the...