ethereum's endgame: scale the L1 to billions and L2s to hit trillions (of gas)
the tech barrier is no longer theoretical. SP1 Hypercube has shown real-time zkVMs are viable in production.
the EF plans to shift the L1 from block re-execution to ZK proof verification. this allows for:
- ~10,000 TPS on Ethereum
- increased gas block targets to gigagas (billions of gas/sec)
- increased blob throughput (DAS), lowering DA cost and letting rollups post more data per slot
this unlocks the full potential of L2s, targeting an aggregate L2 execution towards teragas (trillions of gas/sec) and ~10,000,000 TPS across the L2s.
the bottleneck shifts from validator hardware to DA bandwidth. we get maximum decentralization, security, and scalability from ZK, leaving week-long challenge periods behind.
at teragas scale, even a miniscule price (e.g., ~$0.00002/proof) implies multi-billion $/yr gross L2 proving; a 10–15% take-rate sends hundreds of millions $/yr to the Succinct Prover Network (+ separate L1 proving revenue), shared with provers and PROVE stakers.
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