The following is a guest post by RostySlav Bortman, founder of Ethereum Ukraine.
Let's face it. Although 2024 was a year of technical success for Ethereum, it was also a year of financial disappointment.
On the one hand, Dencon was finally deployed and activity on the layer 2 network of the ecosystem rose sharply 4 times.
Meanwhile, Ethereum started to lag behind Solana in terms of the number of developers, and ETH dynamics did not meet investors' expectations.
Nevertheless, Ethereum's technical structure ensures strong expectations for its growth. Today, we already have all the tools to create more convenient and efficient solutions. It is their implementation that remains a challenge.
In this article, let's take a look at the main changes facing Ethereum in 2025 and how new technical concepts and a focus on real-world applications will ultimately create the protocol. really easy to use for the masses.
Native interoperability for L2 clusters
Today, most projects that work with multiple rollups must rely on bridges or custom solutions to interact between networks. there is no Authentic Native interoperability – Everything is tied to isolating protocols that manually stitch the ecosystem together.
But by 2025, I expect that Native interoperability Appears at least within a certain range L2 cluster (superchain, elastic chain, aggregation layer). This means that transactions and data can move quickly and reliably between different rollups without bridges, central oracles, or intermediaries.
In fact, Vitalik Buterin believes that the main problem remains the lack of a uniform cross-chain standard that is accepted by most rollups. But even without this, the fact of the appearance of Built-in interoperability is formed Layer 2 new story And attract more resources and more attention to this topic.
And breakthrough products emerge only from the energy of developers. A new standard of interoperability between rollups could be the key to decentralized applications and true Web3 innovation.
EIP-7702: A new level of Ethereum UX and security
If you follow the development of Ethereum, you've definitely heard EIP-7702one of the most important suggestions for improving UX and account security. In fact, it is evolution of EIP-4337but there is native integration at the protocol layer.
What does this actually mean? EOA account (traditional wallets such as Metamask) can execute arbitrary code within a transaction. Simply put, they actually AA Wallet (Account Abstraction, EIP-4337). This opens up many new opportunities.
- transaction batch – Say goodbye to numerous approvals and multi-step defi operations, all can be done within a single transaction.
- USDC gas payment – Now you don't need to keep ETH just for fees.
- Advanced security solution Things like multi-factor authentication, social account recovery, and other use cases will become the norm.
Therefore, Ethereum becomes more convenient and accessible, removing the limitations of billions of users. If this proposal is implemented, it will be a real revolution In Web3 UX and Security.
Time to build a dap
Everyone sees it, but it's finally time to act. The Ethereum community has long focused on the infrastructure layer and has lost ground on what really matters to users. application. Ethereum has been busy discussing modularity and a new L2 architecture, but strong alternatives are emerging in the area of actual product.
it's time Shift attention to developing decentralized applications that streamline tangible utilities. projects such as warp cast, Farcade games, fileverse, Polymateand others show how to build useful services on blockchain. And of course we can't ignore AI agent It becomes an important component of the ecosystem.
This trend will be the main focus of the new hackathon. This is running on Kyiv, powered by Zero1 Labs and Ideasoft. Fully dedicated to the development and implementation of AI agents in the blockchain ecosystem.
However, there is another “but”. Applications must imagine all the technical complexities of modular Ethereum for users. This is one of the biggest challenges for ecosystems in recent years. Today, if you have assets in your base and need to carry out transactions in Arbitrum, you will face difficulties. Yes, other blockchain protocols partially solve this problem, but only under certain conditions.
- If the amount is not too large,
- If the solver has enough liquidity (i.e. the token is popular and not some memo coin),
- If it's not AltVM that generally lives by its own rules.
Because decentralized applications become widely spreadthey should simply work It's convenientbut invisible to the user. This is exactly what the Ethereum ecosystem is missing today, and this is where it will be in the future.
What do you hope for in 2025?
An application that completely hides the technical complexity of the UX and prevents users from thinking about whether ETH or USDC is stored in L2.
Yes, native interoperability is importantbut the main thing is that it is no longer the future, but reality. Most of the tools needed to create such an experience are already exists.
Nevertheless, we have not yet seen a fundamental change in UX, and Web3 is still inconvenient for mass users. We hope that 2025 will be the moment when this situation finally begins to change.
