According to BlockBeats, Ethereum is poised for significant scalability advancements over the next year. By 2026, the network is expected to undergo the Glamsterdam fork, which will introduce nearly perfect parallel processing capabilities to the mainnet and significantly increase the Gas limit from the current 60 million to 200 million.
A substantial number of validators will shift from re-executing transactions to verifying zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs. This transition will set Ethereum Layer 1 on a path to potentially achieve scalability of 10,000 transactions per second (TPS) or higher, although this target will not be reached by 2026.
Additionally, data blocks will expand, potentially reaching 72 or more per block, enabling Layer 2 (L2) solutions to handle hundreds of thousands of transactions per second. L2 is becoming increasingly user-friendly; the recent Atlas upgrade by ZKsync allows funds to remain on the mainnet while transactions occur in the fast execution environment of the ZKsync elastic network.
The planned Ethereum interoperability layer aims to facilitate seamless cross-chain operations between L2s, with privacy becoming a central focus. The Heze-Bogota fork, scheduled for the end of the year, is targeted at enhancing censorship resistance.
