Ethereum's 2025 Roadmap What Comes After Dencun
Ethereum's next major upgrades promise faster transactions, lower fees, and improved scalability. Here's what to expect.
Following the successful Dencun upgrade, Ethereum continues its ambitious roadmap toward a fully scalable, secure, and decentralized network. The next phases bring exciting improvements that will benefit both developers and users.
The Verge: Verkle Trees
Verkle trees will replace the current Merkle Patricia Trie, significantly reducing the amount of data validators need to store. This makes it feasible to run a full Ethereum node on consumer hardware, dramatically improving decentralization.
The Purge: State Expiry
State expiry will address Ethereum's growing state size by archiving old, unused data. This reduces storage requirements and improves network performance while maintaining full data availability through history expiry mechanisms.
Looking Ahead
Ethereum's roadmap is one of the most ambitious in all of tech. Each upgrade brings the network closer to its vision of being the world's settlement layer — a trustless, permissionless platform capable of handling global-scale applications.