Recently, there was an interesting analysis of Ethereum's roadmap, and Vitalik Buterin seems to have a clear vision of the network's development path. It turns out that scaling is planned in two phases, which makes sense.

In the short term, the main focus is on the Glamsterdam upgrade. Block-level access lists will be implemented to speed up verification, plus an ePBS mechanism that will give validators more time to validate. An interesting point is that gas will be recalculated based on the actual time taken to execute operations.

But the main thing to note is the multi-dimensional gas. Vitalik Buterin emphasizes that this will help separate resource consumption and solve the state bloat problem. During Glamsterdam, state creation costs will be separated — gas for state creation will not be counted within the standard limit. This will allow deploying larger contracts without hitting the ceiling.

The EVM will remain compatible thanks to the reservoir mechanism, so subroutine calls and gas operations will work normally. Gradually, Ethereum will transition to multi-dimensional gas pricing for long-term sustainability.

The long-term strategy that Vitalik Buterin describes focuses on ZK-EVM and blobs. Through iterative improvements like PeerDAS, blobs are expected to reach a data throughput of 8 MB/sec. This means blockchain data can be verified directly without full download.

Overall, Vitalik Buterin envisions a gradual but confident development. Not a revolution, but evolution. The network becomes more flexible and resilient. This is a strategy for the coming years.