Vitalik Buterin stated that Ethereum researchers have finalized a streamlined Ethereum roadmap at the Berlin conference, which will replace core components through a series of forks. The core changes include a shift towards recursive STARK verification, the introduction of 1-2 rounds of finality, multidimensional gas pricing, and quantum resistant cryptography. The state model expands the existing 2TB dynamic state to 100TB, reducing transaction fees by more than 10 times. Privacy has been upgraded to a first level design goal, and all new components support quantum resistant and non intermediary privacy transactions. The exploration of the underlying VM of the protocol introduces RISC-V or LeanISA, while EVM may be relegated to the compilation layer feature. The Glasterdam fork will increase the gas limit, with H-star being the last previous reduced fork.
