Vitalik Buterin Wants Ethereum to Reach 100K Transactions Per Second with Rollups

Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, shared a blog post about the future of the network. Thanks to “The Surge”, the next phase of the Dencun upgrade, 100,000 transactions per second (tps) will be able to occur on the network.

Buterin states that the 100,000 TPS target will be achieved through Ethereum’s rollup-centric roadmap that combines layer-2 scaling solutions, advanced data availability, and data compression techniques.

According to the post, “The Rollup-centric roadmap proposes a simple division of labor: Ethereum L1 focuses on being a robust and decentralized base layer, while L2s take on the task of helping the ecosystem scale.”

“This is a pattern repeated throughout society: the court system (L1) is not there to be ultra-fast and efficient, it is there to protect contracts and property rights, and it is up to entrepreneurs (L2) to build on top of the base layer.”

Buterin writes that the easiest solution to all of this might be to increase Ethereum’s gas limit, but that would increase centralization because any increase would require costly hardware, push out smaller nodes, and lead to fewer, more centralized validators.

Instead, Buterin advocates taking a nuanced approach by exploring cost-optimized gas fees and introducing EOF (Ethereum Object Format), an efficient bytecode format.

“Ethereum should be a single ecosystem, not like 34 different blockchains,” said Buterin, who suggested adding standardized chain identifiers to addresses and improving cross-L2 standards to facilitate multi-chain interactions.