\u201cThe Ethereum ship is slowly turning around,\u201d claimed David Hoffman from Bankless on April 19.<\/p>\n
He added that the process started over six months ago and changes are already observable, highlighting six areas of change Ethereum is undergoing.<\/p>\n
The project went through a rough patch earlier this year with leadership issues<\/a> at the Ethereum Foundation, developers jumping ship, and record levels of FUD being disseminated.<\/p>\n However, despite that, it is still the industry standard network for DeFi, stablecoins, real-world asset tokenization<\/a>, and decentralized applications.<\/p>\n After primarily being research-focused for years, Ethereum is now recognizing the need to adapt in response to competitive pressures that emerged around 2021, argues Hoffman.<\/p>\n He added that the Ethereum community is actively addressing these issues through aggressive layer-1 scaling, with plans to increase gas limits tenfold over two years.<\/p>\n There has also been a shift from protocol-first to product-first thinking, with new leadership roles, and the Ethereum Foundation is taking a more active coordinating role with new co-executive directors.<\/p>\n He also said there is now a more inclusive culture as the doors to the \u201cIvory Tower\u201d open, enabling a welcoming ecosystem of voices into roadmap conversations.<\/p>\n There is better layer-2 integration and developing interoperability standards, positioning Ethereum layer-1 service provider to L2s. Finally, an increased urgency is embracing shorter roadmap cycles and faster protocol upgrades.<\/p>\n \u201cEthereum\u2019s Strategic Pivot\u201d<\/p>\n The Ethereum ship is slowly turning around. I wrote an article on @BanklessHQ<\/a> doing my best to identify6\ufe0f\u20e3arenas of change Ethereum is undergoing<\/p>\n Read! pic.twitter.com\/zxDOXOlVdP<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 David Hoffman (@TrustlessState) April 19, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n\n In a recent podcast Ethereum Foundation<\/a> researchers Ansgar Dietrichs and Dankrad Feist said that the organization was stepping up to facilitate these steps.<\/p>\n \u201cParts of the Ethereum community have been pushing for this shift, while others have been resisting it,\u201d said Hoffman, who added, \u201cEthereum is a big tent that holds space for many different voices.\u201d<\/p>\n Uniswap founder Hayden Adams weighed in<\/a> on the Ethereum scaling debate<\/a>, stating, \u201cI\u2019m all for scaling improvements to L1, the rollup-centric roadmap actually requires it,\u201d but pointing out that if Ethereum ultimately relies on L1 to support DeFi, Solana may have a stronger roadmap, team, and scaling model.<\/p>\n He argued Ethereum should stick to its rollup-centric layer-2 scaling strategy, which it has developed over the past five years.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople need to pick a lane and attempt to mitigate the risks associated with it vs scrambling to shift narratives and strategy every month.\u201d<\/p>\n He added that he was also against \u201cjust do every approach,\u201d which is probably the only thing worse than not picking an approach.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Ethereum prices remain at March 2023 levels, failing to push much higher than $1,600 so far this weekend.<\/p>\n The post Has Ethereum Turned Itself Around? Experts Weigh In<\/a> appeared first on CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cThe Ethereum ship is slowly turning around,\u201d claimed David Hoffman from Bankless on April 19. He added that the process started over six months ago and changes are already observable, highlighting six areas of change Ethereum is undergoing. The project went through a rough patch earlier this year with leadership issues at the Ethereum Foundation, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":60582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Evolution of Ethereum<\/h2>\n
\nIn fact, this process started over 6 months ago \u2013 changes are already observable<\/p>\nThe Scaling Debate<\/h2>\n