Vitalik reveals a new phase in the Ethereum roadmap: ‘The Scourge’
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has added a new stage to the Ethereum technical roadmap, one that aims to improve censorship resistance and decentralization of the Ethereum network.
The Ethereum network’s new plans were revealed by Buterin in a Nov. 5 Twitter post — which introduced “The Scourge” in a now expanded six-part technical roadmap.
Following Ethereum’s shift to a proof-of-stake (PoS) network on Sept. 15, Ethereum has been in the second stage — “The Surge — with the goal of getting to 100,000 transactions per second through rollups.
The updated technical roadmap now inserts “The Scourge” as the new third stage, which will then be followed by the previously-known stages — The Verge, The Purge and The Splurge.
Updated roadmap diagram! pic.twitter.com/MT9BKgYcJH
According to the Ethereum roadmap, the goal of The Scourge is to “ensure reliable and credibly neutral transaction inclusion and to avoid centralization and other protocol risks from MEV.”
The Ethereum co-founder’s call for a more “credibly neutral” consensus layer comes as miners have been known to exploit transactions on the Ethereum network to their favor.
Buterin has previously described a credibly neutral mechanism as one which "does not discriminate for or against any specific people."
Miner Extractable Value (MEV) occurs when a miner front-runs other participants in the network by deciding which transactions are to be placed in a block and in what order.
This allows miners to duplicate all winning deals from the mempool and execute their transactions ahead of arbitrage seekers or anyone attempting to make a profit.
As a result, Ethereum has become associated with a higher degree of centralization and censorship following The Merge.
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