Vitalik Buterin's recent statement, "What's coming for Ethereum will surprise many people!", has generated considerable excitement in the crypto community. The roadmap for the end of 2025 and beginning of 2026 focuses on "The Surge" and "The Purge" phases. Thanks to Danksharding, Verkle Trees, and full data availability layers following EIP-4844, Ethereum is expected to reach a capacity of over 100,000 transactions per second. Furthermore, the "stateless client" transformation and history expiry will dramatically reduce the cost of running a node.
With these developments, Ethereum will have an infrastructure capable of surpassing Visa in both scalability and decentralization. While the L2 ecosystem transitions to unified liquidity, account abstraction (EIP-7702) and smart wallet standards will radically change the user experience. Buterin's emphasis on "surprise" suggests that many are still referring to the Ethereum of 2017-2021; in reality, an entirely new network is coming. 2026 could be the year that even the discussions of Ethereum “flippening” become redundant.
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Vitalik Buterin's recent statement, "What's coming for Ethereum will surprise many people!", has generated considerable excitement in the crypto community. The roadmap for the end of 2025 and beginning of 2026 focuses on "The Surge" and "The Purge" phases. Thanks to Danksharding, Verkle Trees, and full data availability layers following EIP-4844, Ethereum is expected to reach a capacity of over 100,000 transactions per second. Furthermore, the "stateless client" transformation and history expiry will dramatically reduce the cost of running a node.
With these developments, Ethereum will have an infrastructure capable of surpassing Visa in both scalability and decentralization. While the L2 ecosystem transitions to unified liquidity, account abstraction (EIP-7702) and smart wallet standards will radically change the user experience. Buterin's emphasis on "surprise" suggests that many are still referring to the Ethereum of 2017-2021; in reality, an entirely new network is coming. 2026 could be the year that even the discussions of Ethereum “flippening” become redundant.
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