Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum Will Implement a Streamlined Roadmap Over the Next 5 Years

Vitalik Buterin stated that Ethereum researchers finalized a streamlined Ethereum roadmap at the Berlin conference, replacing core components with a series of hard forks. The main changes include switching validation to recursive STARK, introducing 1-2 rounds of finality, multidimensional Gas pricing, and quantum-resistant cryptography. The state model will expand the current 2TB dynamic state to 100TB, with transaction fees reduced by more than 10 times. Privacy is upgraded to a primary design objective, with all new components supporting quantum resistance and peer-to-peer privacy transactions. At the protocol layer, exploration includes introducing RISC-V or leanISA into the VM, and EVM may become merely a compile-time feature. The Glasterdam fork will increase Gas limits, and H-star will be the final pre-streamlining fork.