Consensys Founder: Ethereum Will Focus on Three Core Development Directions and Emphasize AI Integration in the Future

Jinse Finance live report: On October 2, 2025, at the Token 2049 event, Joseph Lubin, founder and CEO of Consensys and chairman of SharpLink, outlined the core priorities for the future development of Ethereum: First, scalability—by optimizing the mainnet Gas limit to improve processing efficiency, while relying on Layer 2 to share traffic, with the goal of achieving "million-level TPS" to support mainstream applications such as global payments and AI agent transactions; Second, optimizing user experience—focusing on solving pain points such as complex private key management and large Gas fee fluctuations, thereby lowering the threshold for non-technical users; Third, emphasizing fundamental research and development—investing heavily in zero-knowledge proof technology to ensure transaction privacy, while upgrading the PoS consensus mechanism's resistance to attacks to prevent transaction rollbacks and catastrophic failures. In addition, Lubin mentioned the potential for integration between AI and blockchain, believing that Ethereum smart contracts can address the pain point of "unverifiable" AI inference results, while AI can help optimize Ethereum Gas fee dynamic adjustments and consensus node selection efficiency. He also called on ecosystem developers to focus on the needs of the real economy (such as the high cost of cross-border remittances and the on-chain migration of traditional assets), rather than short-term speculative scenarios, and emphasized that Ethereum must build a trust system without intermediaries through both "vertical (L1 node decentralization) + horizontal (L2 sharding operations)" dual decentralization, thereby promoting the reconstruction of the global trust mechanism.