Ethereum News: Ethereum’s New Roadmap Targets Instant Finality and Scalability—Will It Succeed?

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin has introduced a new development roadmap aimed at addressing challenges with scalability and security. Another intended goal is to achieve instant transaction finality. This Ethereum news comes as the network faces criticism for its network performance and market crashes, particularly in comparison to competitors like Solana.

Vitalik Buterin Unveils Ethereum Roadmap

In the roadmap, unveiled on March 28, Vitalik outlines three key objectives: increasing the number of blobs to 72 by 2026, implementing a hybrid-proof structure for instant transaction finality, and enhancing aggregation levels. Blobs, or Proto-Danksharding objects, are integral to improving roll-up function. By scaling through sharding and increased blobs, Ethereum aims to improve flow in its system by reducing congestion. 

A simple L2 security and finalization roadmaphttps://t.co/p0ufBtnKVx

— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) March 28, 2025

Buterin added, “This gets us to a pragmatic higher level of fast finality and security while getting us to the key stage 2 milestone of full trustlessness in the case where proof systems (OP and ZK) work correctly. It will reduce round-trip times for market makers to 1 hour or even much lower, allowing fees for intent-based cross-L2 bridging to be very low.” 

Ethereum’s Future Plan Receives Mixed Reactions

In the final step of the roadmap, Buterin stressed that the dev team should work harder on standardized proof aggregation layers scaled to the entire Ethereum ecosystem. Zero-knowledge-based proof systems should use single proofs to reduce gas expenses. He said that Layer2 applications and zkemail-like wallet recover “the most natural initial use cases” for that. The roadmap has received mixed reactions from the market, as some investors do not appreciate Ethereum’s focus on L2 applications. Given that, only time can tell whether this roadmap achieves its goals or not. 

Despite Ether experiencing its worst Q1 in seven years, Ethereum remains second only to Bitcoin in terms of market cap. In March, Ethereum outpaced Solana in trading volume by 22%, reaffirming its dominance in the decentralized (DeFi) space. To add to that, 53% of the stablecoin market is built on the Ethereum network, which shows its importance in the crypto space.
With that in mind, let’s take a quick peek at Ethereum’s performance in the last 24 hours with an ETH price analysis. Let us also form an ETH price prediction for today.

ETH Price Analysis: ETH Fails to Break $1,821 

ETH started the day at $1,816, moving in an uptrend, thanks to the golden cross on the previous day. An hour later, ETH was trading at $1,826. A death cross occurred half an hour later, at 1:30,  as ETH succumbed to the selling pressure. The downtrend eventually took ETH to $1,804 by 7:00 UTC. With the RSI nearing overbought levels, the trend reversed as Ethereum started ascending again, going to $1,821 again. But the buying pressure was saturated, and the price faced a dramatic fall. This fall, corroborated by the 10:10 death cross, led ETH down to $1,778 by 15:45.

Chart1 : published on TradingView, April 6, 2025

Another uptrend commenced as Ethereum recovered from oversold levels. This uptrend would face some correction, but go on till $1,813 by 2:00 UTC on April 6. However, the $1,814 mark would offer strict resistance as ETH failed to break it in the coming hours. This failure led Ethereum to fall to the $1785 support. As of the last update, Ethereum was testing the support level again. 

ETH Price Prediction: Can ETH Go Beyond $1820 Today?

For now, ETH’s price action has been devoid of a significant bullish trend. Any buying pressure is losing steam before pushing ETH to notable levels. Given that, it may be difficult for ETH to go beyond $1,820 today. But if ETH is able to bounce back and beyond the $1,814 soon, $1,820 could be on the cards. If buying pressure continues to dominate, ETH will be seen in sub-$1800 levels.