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The next is an guest publication by Rostyslav Bortman, founder of ethereum Ukraine.
Let's be realistic: although 2024 was a year of technological success for ethereum, it was also a year of financial disappointment.
On the one hand, Dencun was finally implemented, and the activity in the networks of layer 2 in the ecosystem <a target="_blank" href="https://unchainedcrypto.com/ethereum-has-had-a-banner-year-in-most-areas-except-price/”>shot 4 times.
On the other hand, ethereum began to be delayed behind Solana in terms of the number of developers, and the dynamics of eth did not meet the expectations of investors.
However, ethereum's technological structure guarantees strong expectations for growth. Today, we already have all the tools to create more convenient and efficient solutions. It is its implementation that remains a challenge.
In this article, we analyze the main changes that ethereum will face in 2025 and how new technological concepts and a growing approach to real world applications can finally make the protocol. truly easy to use for masses.
Native interoperability in L2 groups
Today, most of the projects that operate in multiple Rollups have to trust bridges (such as) or personalized solutions to interact between networks. There is no complete native interoperability yet – Everything is linked to separate protocols that manually unite the ecosystem.
However, by 2025, I hope native interoperability will appear at least within a certain L2 groups (Superchain, elastic chain, aggregation layer). This means that transactions and data will be able to move between different rolls quickly and reliably without bridges, centralized or intermediary oracles.
In fact, Vitalik Buterin believes that the main problem remains the lack of unified cross chain standards that most scroll accept. But even without this, the fact of the appearance of Incorporated interoperability It will be formed A new narrative in layer 2 and attract more resources to this topic, as well as attract more attention.
And innovative products only emerge from the energy of developers. The new standards for interoperability between the Rollups can be the key to better decentralized applications and the true innovation of web3.
EIP-7702: A new level of UX and security in ethereum
If you follow the development of ethereum, you have definitely heard of EIP-7702One of the most significant proposals to improve the security of UX and accounts. In fact, it is a evolution of EIP-4337but with native integration directly in the protocol layer.
What does this mean in practice? EOA accounts (Traditional wallets such as Metamk) may execute arbitrary code within a transaction. In simple terms, they can really become Wallets AA (Account abstraction, EIP-4337). This opens many new opportunities:
- Transaction lot -Well goodbye to dozens of approvals and operations of several steps, everything can be done within a single transaction.
- Pay for gas at USDC – Now you don't have to keep eth just for commissions.
- Advanced Security Solutions Such as multifactor authentication, the recovery of the social account and other cases of use will become standard.
Therefore, ethereum will become more convenient and accessible, eliminating restrictions for billions of users. If this proposal is implemented, it will be a Royal revolution In web3 UX and Security.
It's time to build DAPPS
They all see it, but it's time to finally act. The ethereum community has focused on the infrastructure layer for too long, losing ground in what really matters to a user, Applications. Although ethereum has been occupied discussing modularity and new L2 architectures, strong alternatives have emerged in the field of real products.
It's time for Change attention to decentralized applications that expedite tangible utility. Projects like Warpcast, Farcade games, Jam, Poomarioand others demonstrate how to create convenient services in the block chain. And, of course, we cannot ignore ai agents That will become an important element of the ecosystem.
This trend will be the main focus of our new Hackathon, which we are running in kyiv with Zero1 Labs and Ideasoft on board. It will be completely dedicated to the development and implementation of ai agents in the blockchain ecosystem.
However, there is another “but”. Applications should conceive all technical complexities of ethereum modular for a user. This has been one of the biggest challenges for the ecosystem in recent years. Today, if you have assets at the base and need to make a transaction in the referee, you will face difficulties. Yes, through and other Blockchain protocols partially solve this problem, but only under certain conditions:
- If the amount is not too large,
- If the solutions have enough liquidity (that is, the token is popular, not some memecors),
- If it is not an Altvm that generally lives according to its own rules.
So that decentralized applications become generalizedThey need not only convenientlybut invisibly To the user. This is exactly what ethereum's ecosystem lacks today, and this is where the future is.
What do I expect in 2025?
The applications that will completely hide the technical complexity of the UX and allow users not to think if they have eth or USDC stored in L2.
Yes, native interoperability is importantBut the main thing is that it is no longer the future, but a reality: most of the tools necessary to create such experience They already exist.
Despite this, we still do not see radical changes in UX, and Web3 remains inconvenient for the mass user. I hope 2025 is the moment when this situation finally begins to change.
