Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has shared an updated 2024 roadmap for the blockchain, outlining the core priorities for the ecosystem moving forward. 

These priorities include the Merge (a robust proof-of-stake consensus), the Surge (a goal of 100,000 transactions per second across Ethereum and its Layer 2 networks), the Scourge (mitigating risks around MEV and liquid pooling), the Verge (easier block verification), the Purge (simplifying the protocol), and the Splurge (everything else). 

Vitalik, in his thread on X, endorsed single-slot finality (SSF) as "the easiest path to resolving a lot of the Ethereum [Proof of Stake] design's current weaknesses" and praised the progress made on L2 networks and with Verkle tree implementations. 

Vitalik also described how the …