Consensys Founder: Ethereum's future focuses on three core development directions and emphasizes AI integration.

[Consensys Founder: Ethereum's Future Focuses on Three Core Development Directions and Emphasizes AI Integration] Jinse Finance reported live that on October 2, 2025, at the Token 2049 event, Consensys founder and CEO, SharpLink Chairman Joseph Lubin proposed that the core priorities for Ethereum's future development are:

1. Scalability, by optimizing the Gas limit of the mainnet to improve processing efficiency, while relying on Layer 2 to share the traffic, with the goal of achieving "million-level TPS" to support mainstream applications such as global payments and AI agency trading;
2. Optimize user experience, focus on addressing pain points such as complex private key management and significant fluctuations in Gas fees, and lower the entry barrier for non-technical users.
3. Emphasize fundamental research and development, with a focus on investing in zero-knowledge proof technology to ensure transaction privacy, while upgrading the attack resistance of the PoS consensus mechanism to prevent transaction rollbacks and catastrophic failures. In addition, Lubin mentioned the potential for the fusion of AI and blockchain, believing that Ethereum smart contracts can address the pain point of "unverifiable" AI inference results, while AI can help optimize the dynamic adjustment of Ethereum Gas fees and the efficiency of consensus node selection; he also called on ecosystem developers to focus on the needs of the real economy (such as the high cost of cross-border remittances and traditional asset tokenization), rather than short-term investment scenarios, and emphasized that Ethereum needs to achieve a dual decentralization through "vertical (L1 node distribution) + horizontal (L2 sharding operation)" to build a trust system without intermediaries and promote the reconstruction of global trust mechanisms.