Justin Drake's Lean Ethereum Vision

Ethereum researcher Justin Drake’s "Lean Ethereum" 10-year vision introduces "Fort mode" for quantum-era security and "Beast mode" for aggressive scaling, targeting 1 TeraGas per second on Layer 2 via real-time ZKVMs. Complementing technical growth, SEC Chairman Paul Atkins’ "Project Crypto" initiative seeks to modernize U.S. regulations, providing clear classifications for tokens and enabling the tokenization of traditional assets like stocks and bonds. Technical infrastructure expands with Alchemy’s Cortex engine, which offers sub-50 millisecond response times for high-performance applications. However, protocol-level debates persist over EIP-7825, a proposal to implement a 16.8 million gas cap per transaction. While Vitalik Buterin advocates for the cap to prevent long-term network inefficiency, some developers caution that the limit may break complex decentralized application workflows. Further updates include the release of NetherMind v1.32.4 and the scheduled deprecation of the Holesky testnet.