Ethereum’s long-term vision is increasingly moving beyond incremental updates towards a more fundamental transformation of its core architecture. as network continues to scale and support a growing ecosystem of decentralized applications, developers and researchers are examining whether achieving ETH’s ultimate goals of global scalability, security, and decentralization requires rebuilding core layer elements rather than simply improving existing systems.
Rebuilding basic infrastructure to ensure long-term growth
Ethereum’s evolution has gone beyond incremental updates; enters the phase of structural reconstruction. Head of Research at EigenCloud, Soubhik Deb, mentioned on the X that the initiative often called Lean Consensus, formerly known as Beamchain, signals the beginning of ETH’s endgame.
It reduces accumulated technical debt, pursues rapid finalization, and designs the protocol with future post-quantum resilience in mind. At the heart of this transformation is Lean Consensus, which is one of the most ambitious working protocols for networks and the entire crypto infrastructure.
Soubhik Deb’s conversations with Drakefjustin focused on understanding what Lean ETH is in practice in terms of real-time validation and increased Layer 1 throughput, and what it unlocks for bulkpacks. Other protocols are being introduced to strengthen the network ecosystem, including scaling.
Analyst Władysław offered insight into the relationship between FOCIL and Ethereum’s scaling plan, particularly in the medium term via L1 zkEVM. It now seems clear that the ETH community requires higher L1 bandwidth to meet global demand. However, the truth about today’s trade-offs is that censorship resistance and rapid inclusion rely heavily on validator altruism, or more precisely, the willingness of validators choosing to build blocks locally, thus giving up more valuable blocks from external creators.
At its current scale, an altruism tax is still acceptable and manageable, but reliance is frail and suboptimal. What’s even more problematic is that as bandwidth increases, it becomes increasingly more high-priced. The good news is that FOCIL will make enablement a protocol-level guarantee. Instead of treating censorship resistance as… market probability, it becomes an imposed rule of the system.
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However, with the decision to plan to incorporate FOCIL into the protocol, the project is well positioned for downsizing critical dependence of the social class. At the same time, it paves the way for a huge escalate in L1 throughput.
Ethereum liquidation clusters rely on both sides of the price
The current Ethereum liquidation heat map reflects a market stretched on both sides. According to for Ted, ETH longs and shorts are aggressive, which means all that aggressiveness will be eliminated.
If geopolitical tensions, such as a potential U.S.-Iran escalation, escalate, downward pressure could trigger long liquidations followed by a reversal leading to declines. However, positive events such as peace talks can usher in positive energy breakouteliminating compact positions before the price potentially returns to target long positions.
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