Opinion of: Leo Fan, co-founder of Cysic
The management of Ethereum today is like trying to play a modern game on a laptop from the 1980s – obsolete equipment would find it difficult to load, lagging behind and probably crash under the weight of new requests. Designed for a simpler blockchain era, Ethereum’s infrastructure can no longer follow, dealing with only 10 to 62 transactions per second, well below the thousands necessary for consumer adoption.
Meanwhile, with block hours less than a second and quasi-zero fees, Solana likes to grow consumer popularity, which is obvious in wallet downloads that increases in the middle of the launch of Trump. Ethereum remains hampered by high gas costs and congestion, pushing users and developers to faster alternatives.
Without contacting his bottlenecks on the scale, Ethereum may late. While the layer 2 (L2) rollers of Ethereum have attenuated the congestion of the network, they ultimately serve as stop measures which provide temporary relief. Software approaches focused on software are experiencing dentition problems in terms of interoperability and scalability, raising questions about sustainability and long -term relevance of Ethereum.
Many L2s are designed to adapt to the native network and cannot support real -time applications such as decentralized games or cross -border payments. Ethereum needs a fundamental change if he wants to maintain his leadership in the blockchain space. The solution does not reside in incremental software updates but in hardware acceleration.
Align the vision of Ethereum with the equipment
The Milestone of Vitalik Buterin envisages Ethereum achieving a complete verification of nodes on basic devices, a critical step towards the wider objectives of accessibility and decentralization of blockchain. Buterin emphasized the passage of patchwork solutions to the construction of a well -balanced computer infrastructure to achieve this vision. The specially designed equipment, such as integrated circuits specific to the application (ASIC), is essential: it improves the speed processing speeds, reduces latency and optimizes energy consumption. It lays the basics of a sustainable Ethereum scaling, ensuring that the network is developing without compromising its fundamental principles.
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The upgrading of Ethereum Pectra does not fully resolve its challenges in fundamental scaling, highlighting the urgency of improved scope and stability. The main optimizations introduced – the abstraction of improved accounts and operations of validator – seek to refine the efficiency and user experience of Ethereum, but do not significantly increase the flow of transactions or do not reduce the latency of the network.
Ethereum is likely to be delayed without specialized equipment, weakening its position as a set of regulation for the blockchain community. Investment in native material solutions will allow Ethereum to develop effectively while confirming its commitment to decentralization and supporting a basis of growing users.
Traditional adoption and real world applications
The effect of solutions of material scale extends far beyond Ethereum itself. Tradfi players explore cross -border payments based on blockchain, which require real -time treatment. With the evolution problems inherited from the original layer, the L2 alone cannot evolve effectively to meet the tradfi demand. Transfronner transactions reached 190.1 dollars billions in 2023 and should only increase in 2025, indicating one thing: material acceleration is essential to encourage the institutional adoption of blockchain.
Beyond finance, material optimization improves the usefulness of blockchain in all industries, accelerating traditional adoption. A notable example is health care, where accelerated blockchain infrastructure could improve the safety and confidentiality of patient data. For the industries of games based on dynamic interactions, blockchain networks can help provide real -time responses to user actions.
The AI factor
The blockchain does not work in isolation; It competes with the industries with high calculation intensity, such as AI, the fashionable word of 2024. The rise in power of AI has reshaped the industries, but it also becomes a fierce competitor of the blockchain for electricity and equipment. Data centers like Hut 8 and Scientific Coin prioritize the workloads of AI, which can generate up to 25 times more income than Bitcoin mining (BTC). These movements highlight the growing pressure on blockchain networks to optimize the effectiveness of resources or the risk of being sidelined in the race for computer domination.
The criticisms say that Ethereum “dies a slow death”. Once the house of decentralized financial innovation (DEFI), the evolution problems of Ethereum are hindering its ability to compete with Defai. Ethereum must adopt equipment specially designed to resolve its ineffective infrastructure, allow faster transactions and reduce energy consumption. In this way, Ethereum has a chance to intervene in the future compared to the developments of the AI and to maintain its competitive advantage for the consumer adoption.
Time to invest in the equipment is now
Ethereum has relied heavily on L2S on a scale, but they remain temporary solutions that do not meet fundamental operational requests from the network. Material solutions are now not negotiable for Ethereum to keep its leading position in blockchain innovation. From the activation of transparent tradfi integrations to real -time interactions in games and health care, specially designed equipment solves the root ineffections of Ethereum infrastructure. Without decisive investment in material acceleration, Ethereum may stagnate while competitors increase.
Ethereum does not need another short -term patch. It requires a lasting solution. Blockchain’s next adoption wave requires an infrastructure that can support it, which means investing in the equipment now.
Opinion of: Leo Fan, co-founder of Cysic.
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