Ethereum's Lean Dream: The Quest for Warp Speed (and Simpler Toasters) $ETH
The year is 2025, and Ethereum has unveiled its "Lean Plan," a decade-long saga promising to catapult Layer 1 transactions to a mind-boggling 10,000 transactions per second (TPS). Bartholomew "Barty" Buttercup, still reeling from a transaction that took longer than his morning commute, blinked. "Ten thousand? On Layer 1?" he whispered, as if uttering a forbidden spell. The secret sauce? "Parallel EVMs" and "Single-Device Verification."
The crypto community, notorious for its patience (or lack thereof), was simultaneously thrilled and utterly confused. Developers celebrated the theoretical reduction in gas fees, while users like Barty just hoped their next NFT mint wouldn't cost more than the NFT itself. Agnes, Barty's tech-savvy neighbor, already envisioned a future where her smart toaster could verify transactions, ensuring perfectly browned bread every time, all without needing a supercomputer.
Critics, naturally, muttered about "over-engineering" and the inevitable "blockchain bloat" that would turn everyone's phones into miniature supercomputers just to run a dApp. But the Ethereum Foundation pressed on, fueled by dreams of a world where transaction speed wasn't a running joke and even your fridge could confirm a block. Barty, ever the optimist, just hoped that by 2035, his HamsterWheelCoin transactions would finally go through before the hamster retired.
