Ethereum Foundation researcher Dankrad Feist has cautioned that ETH’s base layer could slip into irrelevance within a decade unless the community embraces a far more aggressive roadmap for on-chain scaling and protocol overhaul. Writing in a post on the Ethereum Magicians forum, Feist introduces a draft EIP that would pre-commit the network to a multi-year schedule of sharp gas-limit increases and complementary architectural changes.
“I do think it is time for being unconventional, because the current way of doing things is likely to make Ethereum irrelevant over the next 5-10 years,” Feist argues at the outset of his proposal.
Feist’s primary concern is strategic. He insists that the main chain must remain “the economic center of Ethereum,” warning that splintering liquidity…
