The current blob target on Ethereum is 6 blobs per block and the network is almost at capacity.
Fusaka, which goes live on December 3rd, will enable much greater scalability of blobs with PeerDAS.
Though blob increases are being rolled out gradually as not to overload the network with the first 'Blob Parameter Only (BPO)' fork going live on December 9th (blob target increase from 6 to 10) and the second one going live on January 7th (blob target increase from 10 to 14).
Ethereum is scaling at both layer 1 and layer 2 with more BPO forks expected in 2026 and a 3x'ing of the L1 gas limit (from 60 million to 180 million).
1/ Ethereum's next major upgrade, Pectra, is tentatively scheduled to go live in mid-March!
This will be Ethereum's largest upgrade in history (as measured by number of EIPs/features included).
Here's a breakdown of what's coming in Pectra 🧵👇
2/ EIP-7702: Set EOA account code
This is probably the most anticipated EIP of the Pectra upgrade as it brings with it major changes to Ethereum user transaction flow via account abstraction.
Transaction bundling, gas sponsorship, asset recovery and more - it's all coming with EIP-7702!
Say goodbye to things like the approve>swap flow - now it can all happen in a single transaction!
3/ EIP-7251: Increase the MAX_EFFECTIVE_BALANCE
Currently Ethereum validators are limited to earning rewards on a maximum of 32 ETH per validator. Once EIP-7251 goes live, the maximum will be increased to 2048 ETH per validator.
This means that staking rewards can be automatically added to a validator no matter how small (no need to wait to earn 32 ETH to spin up another validator to earn rewards) and many validators controlled by a single node operator can be consolidated down which takes a huge load off of the network.
1/ I see this rhetoric a lot but there's a lot of nuance here.
None of the other PoS networks work like Ethereum PoS - almost all of them are some flavor of DPoS - which has soft delegation (rather than "hard delegation" like Ethereum).
2/ Expanding on this: When you delegate your tokens in a DPoS network, a new validator is not spun up - you are just adding stake to an existing validator (that may or may not have a cap).
This is why you typically see DPoS networks with a very small active validator set.
3/ In Ethereum, you can "delegate" your stake to an entity like Coinbase, but for that ETH to actually be "at stake", it needs to be tied to a validator which requires a minimum of 32 ETH to be active.
1/ I have achieved almost everything that I set out to achieve in life and I'm not even 30 yet
This isn't a brag, this is a warning to young people just getting started in crypto: you don't really want to "make it" - what you want to do is turn making it into a perpetual process
2/ Many of you will be in similar situations to what I was in a few years ago: you have a plan to accrue enough wealth so that you can live comfortably and do what you love
This is an awesome goal to have but take it from me: you don't want to actually achieve it
3/ Even though I've "made it" and still spend my days engrossed in the Ethereum ecosystem, it hits different now - I'm doing it for mostly altruistic reasons - not for any monetary gain
This has been my goal since basically day 1 - but it's not how I imagined it would feel.