next year will be a critical period for Ethereum scaling. By 2026, Ethereum will see the Glamsterdam fork, which will introduce near-perfect parallel processing capabilities to the mainnet and significantly increase the Gas limit from the current 60 million to 200 million. A large number of validators will shift from re-executing transactions to verifying zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs. This transition will put Ethereum Layer 1 on a development path scalable to 10,000 transactions per second (TPS) or even higher, although this goal will not be achieved in 2026. Meanwhile, data blocks will increase (each block may reach 72 or more), enabling L2 to process hundreds of thousands of transactions per second. L2 is also becoming increasingly user-friendly; ZKsync's recent Atlas upgrade allows funds to remain on the mainnet but transact in a fast execution environment on the ZKsync elastic network chain. The planned Ethereum interoperability layer will enable seamless cross-chain operations between L2s, privacy will become a focus, and the Heze-Bogota fork aims to improve censorship resistance by the end of the year.