The Ethereum Foundation has released an update outlining its protocol priorities for 2026. The Foundation has grouped Ethereum’s technology roadmap under three main headings: scaling, improving user experience (UX improvement), and strengthening mainnet resiliency (L1).
According to the shared plan, the Ethereum developer ecosystem will continue its efforts to increase the network’s transaction capacity by pushing the gas limit beyond 100 million. This step is intended to reduce congestion, especially during peak times, by allowing L1 to process more transactions.
On the scaling front, further development of the ePBS (Encrypted Proposer and Builder Separation) mechanism and new increases in blob parameters are also on the agenda. Increasing the capacity of BLOBs has the potential to reduce costs in Ethereum’s L2 ecosystem by allowing data to be exposed more cheaply, especially in rollups.
Another notable aspect of the update was the development plan for the zkEVM attester client. This approach is considered an important step towards further integrating zero-knowledge proofs into the Ethereum infrastructure.
In the area of security, the Foundation has prioritized censorship resiliency and post-quantum preparedness. This aims to provide Ethereum with a more solid foundation against both current threats and future risks.
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