Ethereum’s Next Decade | Tomasz K. Stańczak, Ansgar Dietrichs, Dankrad Feist, & Danny Ryan

What It Covers

Four Ethereum Foundation researchers present their visions for Ethereum's next decade, covering ecosystem development, scaling roadmap, DeFi-centric strategy, and personal journeys through regulatory challenges and protocol development milestones.

Key Questions Answered

• •Ethereum Foundation Restructuring: EF reorganized in 2024 around three twelve-month priorities instead of fifty parallel initiatives, shifting from breadth-first exploration to focused execution with dedicated teams for scaling, developer acceleration, and institutional outreach.
• •Layer One Scaling Target: Ethereum targets three times gas limit increase annually, reaching 60 million gas by end of 2024 and 80-120 million in early 2025, with potential 100x scaling over four years through client optimizations and eventual zkEVM integration.
• •DeFi Revenue Strategy: Ethereum generated 2.5 billion dollars in 2024 revenue primarily from DeFi activity, demonstrating 100-1000x pricing premium over alternative data availability chains, making DeFi liquidity the most sustainable monetization path versus low-margin blob data sales.
• •Real World Asset Integration: Bearer asset structure enables DeFi composability for tokenized real world assets, requiring identity-decoupled ownership similar to stablecoins to unlock liquidity and institutional adoption on Ethereum as the global liquidity layer for all chains.