Ethereum Foundation Releases Update Including Protocol Priorities for 2026

The Ethereum Foundation has released an update outlining its protocol priorities for 2026. The Foundation has grouped Ethereum’s technical roadmap under three main headings: scaling, improving user experience (Improve UX), and hardening the mainnet resilience (L1).

According to the shared plan, the Ethereum developer ecosystem will continue its efforts to increase the network’s transaction capacity by pushing the gas limit above 100 million. This step aims to reduce congestion, especially during peak periods, by enabling more transactions to be processed on L1.

On the scaling side, further development of the ePBS (encrypted Proposer-Builder Separation) mechanism and new increases in blob parameters are also on the agenda. Increasing blob capacity could lower costs in Ethereum’s L2 ecosystem, particularly by enabling rollups to publish data more cheaply.

Another notable point in the update was the planned development of a zkEVM attester client. This approach is considered a significant step towards deeper integration of zero-knowledge proofs into the Ethereum infrastructure.

In the area of security, the foundation prioritized censorship resilience and post-quantum preparedness. This aims to provide Ethereum with a more robust foundation against both current threats and future risks.

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