Ethereum Foundation AMA | Scaling is a priority in the next two years. What are your thoughts on Lido, EigenLayer, and Parallel EVM?
The 11th Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) for Ethereum was held last week, covering major topics of interest to most people, including Ethereum scalability, centralized issues in Lido, capitalization of PoS governance, parallel EVM, and Rollups that don't rely on Ethereum as a data availability layer. Let's take a look at the perspectives of developers from the Ethereum Foundation on these matters.
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Ethereum Scalability is a Major Focus in Recent Years
Recently, the foundation's focus has been on completing the Cancun upgrade, which will introduce EIP-4844 to reduce the data availability cost of Rollups. It is expected that the upgrade will initially expand to 32 blobs per block, with each blob size being 0.375 Mb, and will continue to increase in the future.
In addition, a more direct way to scale is by increasing the Gas Limit. Ethereum founder Vitalik has also stated that it is reasonable to moderately increase the Gas Limit, as it has not been adjusted for three years. It might be possible to raise the current Gas Limit to around 4 million, a 33% increase.
Core developers: Adjusting the block space size requires consideration of multiple factors, and Gas Limit is not a parameter that can be adjusted arbitrarily.
Separation of Governance Power and Wealth Capability
Many existing projects directly apply the PoS consensus mechanism to their governance models, such as Polkadot and Tezos. However, this can lead to situations where voting is influenced by monetary power, resulting in unfair governance issues.
Ethereum developers believe that power and wealth should be separated. When a well-designed system is in place, power can be given back to the people without being affected by wealth, reducing the influence of "the rich being the boss."
The PoS consensus mechanism should not be used in the governance model, and stakeholders should not have special governance power.
Therefore, Ethereum's governance does not