Dankrad Feist, a researcher on the Ethereum Basis (EF), believes that Ethereum will grow to be irrelevant in 5 or ten years from now if its present trajectory doesn’t change.
Earlier this month, Feist launched Ethereum Enchancment Proposal 7938, which goals to extend the fuel restrict by 100x over the course of 4 years. This might make it doable to conduct a a lot larger variety of transactions per block.
Feist has admitted that the proposal is “unconvetional,” however he argues that such unrhotdox choice are wanted because the layer-1 chain is liable to fading into irrelevancy.
The researcher is a part of the camp that desires Ethereum to grow to be the middle of financial exercise throughout the ecosystem.
If liquidity will get fragmented throughout L2s, Ethereum will probably finally ends up dropping to different competing ecosystems, Feist says.
Feist is satisfied that Ethereum will have the ability to scale with out compromising its essential properties (censorship resistance and verfifiability).
As reported by U.Right this moment, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson argued that Ethereum wouldn’t have the ability to survive in ten years from now attributable to “parasitic” layer-2 options. Hoskinson predicted that Ethereum would face the destiny of Blackberry, the main smartphone producer that misplaced its crown to Apple and went extinct.

