Summary
In this chapter, we showed you Ethereum’s plans post-merge and its rollup-centric roadmap. At the time of writing, sharding is the top priority in implementing final solutions for scaling Ethereum. We discussed how Danksharding and Proto-Danksharding work and why data availability sampling is needed. We touched on PBS, as well as its impact on MEV.
We also discussed different zkEVM implementations. A full ZK-compatible EVM is considered the holy grail of EVM improvement. We introduced account abstraction and the EIP 4377 implementation to help you understand how a smart contract wallet works and what innovation it may unleash. Both zKEVM and account abstraction are hot topics in the Ethereum community and we think we will see a real breakthrough soon. At the end of this chapter, we briefly introduced DAO, NFTs, Web3, and the Metaverse.
In the next chapter, we will introduce Solidity, the smart contract programming language in Ethereum. We will dive into the details...