Following the successful launch of Ethereum 2.0 Phase 0 — the offset concrete step in building the next iteration of the protocol — Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published an updated roadmap of what comes next for the project.

The current development of Ethereum 2.0 is generally divided into phases. Phase 0 is the barebones Beacon Chain that enables staking but has no effect on the awarding layer. Phase ane introduces sharding of data, increasing storage capabilities without directly influencing awarding performance. Finally, Phase 2 fully introduces transaction sharding and enables the promised thousands of transactions per 2nd of throughput.

Buterin said in March that this roadmap template is a vision for the next five to x years. The updated version is more fluid and eliminates terms like "Phase one" and "Phase 2" birthday. Defining features of each phase are at present more independent from each other and incorporate work washed for Ethereum 1.10.

Buterin'due south roadmap encompasses all Ethereum developments to provide a detailed overview of what's next for the platform, including gauge completion bars.

Key features of the side by side major milestone are the transition of Ethereum 1.0 to proof-of-stake, the introduction of Eth2 light clients on Eth1, and information sharding — all of which were previously grouped nether Phases ane and i.v. An important modify in the electric current roadmap is the realization that the three steps are largely independent and can be worked on in parallel.

Furthermore, enormous scalability improvements tin can be achieved by executing on the latter two features, equally they would enable hosting rollups on a sharded information structure. Rollups are a layer-ii technology that offloads ciphering outside of the chain but guarantees its correctness through proofs stored on-chain. Due to this, information sharding vastly increases the rollups' room to maneuver and could enable more than x,000 TPS as soon as low-cal clients and data sharding are introduced.

However, progress on data sharding and light clients is withal at or beneath 50%, according to Buterin, consistent with estimates that Stage 1 will take at least one yr to build.

Progress on stateless clients and the Ethereum one.x initiative is besides at less than 50%, according to the chart. The cryptographic technology of polynomial commitments — which Buterin earlier said is the key to applied stateless clients — is also far from beingness complete. Similarly, work toward many other advanced types of cryptographic engineering science and an improved virtual motorcar is still in its early on stages.

After publishing the roadmap, Buterin urged to quickly implement EIP-1559, a proposal to burn the majority of the transaction fees collected past the protocol instead of offering them to miners.