{"id":461566,"date":"2025-01-25T13:01:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T13:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/?p=461566"},"modified":"2025-03-06T12:30:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T12:30:32","slug":"what-awaits-the-ethereum-ecosystem-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/what-awaits-the-ethereum-ecosystem-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"What awaits the Ethereum ecosystem in 2025?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following is a guest post from Rostyslav Bortman, Founder at Ethereum Ukraine.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Let's face it: although 2024 was a year of technological success for Ethereum, it was also a year of financial disappointment.<\/p>\n

On the one hand, Dencun was finally deployed, and activity on Layer 2 networks in the ecosystem <\/span>skyrocketed<\/strong><\/span><\/a> 4 times.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the other, Ethereum began to lag behind Solana<\/a> in terms of the number of developers, and ETH's dynamics did not meet investors' expectations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Nevertheless, Ethereum's technological 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this article, we take a look at the main changes that Ethereum will face in 2025 and how new technological concepts and a growing focus on real-world applications can finally make the protocol <\/span>truly user-friendly for the masses<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Native Interoperability in L2 Clusters<\/b><\/h2>\n

Today, most projects operating on multiple rollups have to rely on bridges (such as Across) or custom solutions to interact between networks. There is no <\/span>full-fledged<\/span><\/i> native interoperability yet<\/b> \u2013 everything is tied to separate protocols that manually stitch the ecosystem together.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, by 2025, I expect that <\/span>native interoperability<\/b> will appear at least within certain <\/span>L2 clusters<\/b> (superchain, elastic chain, aggregation layer). This means that transactions and data will be able to move between different rollups quickly and reliably without bridges, centralised oracles, or intermediaries.<\/span><\/p>\n

Indeed, Vitalik Buterin believes that the main problem remains the lack of unified cross-chain standards that would be accepted by most rollups. But even without this, the fact of the emergence of <\/span>built-in interoperability<\/b> will form <\/span>a new narrative in Layer 2<\/b> and attract more resources to this topic, as well as draw more attention.<\/span><\/p>\n

And breakthrough products only emerge from developers\u2019 energy. New standards for interoperability between rollups can be the key to better decentralised applications and true Web3 innovation.<\/span><\/p>\n

EIP-7702: A New Level of UX and Security in Ethereum<\/b><\/h2>\n

If you follow the development of Ethereum, you have definitely heard about <\/span>EIP-7702<\/b>, one of the most significant proposals for improving UX and account security. In fact, it is an <\/span>evolution of<\/b> EIP-4337<\/b>, but with native integration right at the protocol layer.<\/span><\/p>\n

What does this mean in practice? <\/span>EOA accounts<\/b> (traditional wallets such as MetaMask) will be able to execute arbitrary code within a transaction. In simple terms, they will be able to actually turn into <\/span>AA wallets (Account Abstraction, EIP-4337)<\/b>. This opens up a lot of new opportunities:<\/span><\/p>\n