Ethereum Developers Are Working On A Secret Upgrade

Ethereum developers are secretly planning an earlier unrevealed upgrade that could increase the capacities of the technology. The developers may be executing innovative maneuverings to stimulate its evolution roadmap. Four private meetings’ minutes have betokened the probability of an upgrade named “Ethereum 1x” to be implemented in 2019, reported Coindesk.

The minutes are from four private meetings that took place at the Devcon4 in the month of October 2018. An in-house document comprising the minutes was published on Github by an engineer of the ethereum virtual machine, Greg Colvin, on Friday.

The notes imply that ethereum developers may be under stress to increase their common roadmap in policies that endeavor to append advances at a stimulated timeline. Many variations were examined for incorporation in a system-wide upgrade, or hard fork, currently targeted for June, that have not earlier been linked with a 2019 release.

The report also recommends that at least three separate development acting teams have been established already. One will concentrate on creating a new tool to operate smart contracts (which will replace Ethereum’s virtual machine), another one to address modifications to smart contract prices, and another one to assume and benchmark such modifications.

The minutes from the private meeting imply that the Ethereum developers are working on a new proof of concept. Not only this, but there are also plans to conduct a research conference to push research ahead and promote new patrons to join the force. These meetings were attended by some notable people such as Joseph Lubin, Greg Colvin, Joseph Chow, Fredrik Harrysson, just to name a few.

Following are some of the key points of the meeting

- Eth 1.x plans, process, and strategy
- Eth 2.0 bi-directional communication: research ←→ implementers
- System-wide upgrade presumably in the year 2019 and this upgrade is not related with any earlier considered hard-forks.
- The upgrades include substituting the Ethereum Virtual Machine with the Ethereum laced WebAssembly (EWASM). The EWASM is described as a new, movable, size- and load-time-efficient setup. WebAssembly intends to perform at original speed by getting the success of basic hardware inclinations possible on a broad spectrum of platforms. WebAssembly is right now being outlined as an open model by a W3C Community Group.

Coindesk further reported that

Rent and similar mechanisms to curtail the growth rate of the blockchain have also been publicly considered but may require a “large overhaul,” Vitalik Buterin suggested in the meeting. Other ideas to make the state size more manageable are also being discussed. Developers at the meeting also stressed the importance of working privately in order to coordinate more rapidly around changes. Pushing for as much transparency as possible, Buterin is said to have stated he is “uncomfortable with institutional private calls and absolutely against private forum[s].

Vitalik Buterin and ETH Scaling Woes

Ethereum Developers Are Working On A Secret Upgrade

Vitalik Buterin

In the month of June 2018, ETH founder Vitalik Buterin had said that ethereum will soon reach 1 million transactions per second. He had said that with the help of second layer solutions like Sharding and Plasma, the ethereum network will be able to process 1 million transactions per second.

Before this, at various conferences, Vitalik had always emphasized that scalability has always been a complicated issue and ethereum is struggling to deal with scalability issues. Buterin had expressed that second-layer scaling solutions that are right now being tried on the Ethereum testnet could empower the Ethereum blockchain system to support large-scale decentralized applications with huge clients by adopting a creative strategy in enhancing the blockchain.

He had further explained that if users get 100x from sharding and 100x from plasma then those two together basically give a 10,000x scalability gain. Due to this, blockchains will be powerful enough to handle most applications people are trying to do with them.

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