Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has shared some bullishness for the year ahead, including reaching a new milestone for rollup scaling as per the Ethereum roadmap.
The Ethereum developer also confirmed the rollout of the Ethereum Improvement Protocol (EIP) 4884 sometime in 2023, which had been removed as part of the upcoming Shanghai upgrade package set for March.
Responding to a Dec. 31 post from former chief technology officer of Coinbase, Balaji Srinivasan, asking users what they were bullish for in 2023, Buterin said he was looking forward to reaching the âbasic rollup scalingâ milestone as outlined in the Ethereum roadmap.
Reaching the “basic rollup scaling” milestone in my roadmap diagram.
That means:
* EIP-4844 rolled out* Rollups partially taking off training wheels, at least to “stage 1” as described here https://t.co/qNQonDQkzG pic.twitter.com/7HePctWw1l
â vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) December 31, 2022
He explained that this meant the rollout of The Surge-related Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP)-4884.
EIP-4884 was initially expected to be packaged in with Shanghai, introducing âproto-dankshardingâ to significantly enhance layer-2 rollup scalability (The Surge) ahead of the full implementation of the major Sharding upgrade late next year.
He also said that this would mean that rollups would be âpartially taking off training wheels, at least to stage 1â referring to a Nov. 22 post on the âEthereum Magicians forumâ which describes three stages of âtrust modelâ based on how mature a project’s tech was.
Stage 0, which Buterin likens to having âfull training wheelsâ has the requirements for all transactions being on-chain and providing users the ability to withdraw their assets without the operator.
Stage 1 or âlimited training wheelsâ must have a transaction verification method such as a fraud proof or validity proof scheme to accept or reject which transactions are allowed by the smart contract, along with an overriding security council to oversee the process.Â
While stage 2, has âno training wheelsâ and must have two distinct fraud provers, two distinct validity provers, or one of each. Upgrades are allowed at this stage but must have a delay of more than 30 days.
Related: Vitalik reveals a new section in the Ethereum roadmap: The Scourge
In a separate Twitter post one day earlier on Dec. 30, Buterin also made some comments on what he believes a âGood Crypto Futureâ might look like.
Buterin outlined several areas of crypto that would need to be fixed, including scaling, privacy, user experience and making user accounts more secure for average users than centralized services.
He also sees payments and decentralized finance (DeFi) being part of this future, and new organizational paradigms powered by decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs).



