Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has updated the project roadmap to include a new phase called “The Scourge.”
The update shared on Twitter improved the previous 5-phase Ethereum roadmap, which explains how the network will achieve scalability.
Buterin explained that the new roadmap brings more concrete milestones to every category and a “More explicit role for quantum-proofness as a necessary component of the “endgame” protocol.”
Ethereum six-phase update
The update has six phases, the Merge, the Surge, the Scourge, the Verge, The Purge, and the Splurge. Ethereum initiated the Merge in September with the transition to the Proof-of-Stake consensus mechanism. But the second stage of the Merge will be about single-slot finality.
The next phase is the Surge, where scalability solutions are expected to start. With the Surge, the goal is to improve network…
