After the end of The Merge, Ethereum has considered a higher level of centralization and censorship.
According to Cointelegraph, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has allegedly added a new stage to the technical roadmap for the cryptocurrency in order to improve the network’s censorship resistance and decentralization.
According to Cointelegraph, Buterin disclosed the new ambitions for the Ethereum network by introducing “The Scourge” in a now-expanded six-part technical roadmap through a November 5, 2022, Twitter post. After switching to a proof-of-stake (PoS) network on September 15, 2022, the Ethereum network has been in its second stage, called The Surge, with the goal of attaining 100,000 transactions per second utilizing rollups. The Scourge is reportedly the new third stage that has been added as a result of the technical roadmap update. The Scourge is anticipated to be followed by the previously known stages, The Verge, The Purge, and The Splurge.
The Scourge’s objective is to have neutral transaction inclusion and to avoid centralization and other protocol issues from MEV, according to information provided by Cointelegraph based on insights from the Ethereum roadmap. The co-founder of Ethereum reportedly wants a “credibly neutral” consensus layer because miners have taken advantage of transactions on the Ethereum network.
Earlier, Buterin described a plausible neutral approach for preventing prejudice against persons. As a result, after The Merge, Ethereum has increased its consideration of centralization and censorship. Anthony Sassano, the founder of The Daily Gwei and an Ethereum bull, underlined the importance of censorship resistance above scalability in a tweet on October 15, 2022.
The upgrade to “The Verge,” which is anticipated to enable integration of Succinct Non-Interactive Argument of Knowledge (SNARK) technology onto Ethereum, was also confirmed by Buterin, according to Cointelegraph. It is anticipated that SNARKs would enable the Ethereum network to include privacy-preserving capabilities and allow for the tracing of anonymous transactions.
