- In 2025, Ethereum Layer 1 reaches 400 TPS.
- Phones and smartwatches will have full nodes soon.
Ethereum’s future just got faster and smaller. Vitalik Buterin and Tomasz K. Stańczak presented the breakthrough discoveries at ETHKyiv 2025. Four hundred transactions per second will be achieved by Ethereum layer 1 by the end of 2025. Still more impressive, very soon any person will be able to operate a full Ethereum node on his/her smartphone or smartwatch.
Run Ethereum Full Nodes Anywhere – Even On Your Watch!
Vitalik Buterin came up with an ambitious idea: no mega-servers or massive storage anymore. With zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machines (zkEVMs), a full node will become lightweight and private because zkEVMs compress data and verify transactions without disclosing them. This allows the full nodes to be easily accommodated on the mobile devices.
Buterin added that it is a system that means anyone, anywhere, is able to be a full participant without high infrastructure. The invention opens the door to real decentralization and privacy for the average user. Just imagine you can run a complete Ethereum node in your pocket.
400 TPS on Ethereum Layer 1: The Mainnet Revolution
Tomasz K. Stańczak announced Ethereum’s plan to scale dramatically. By 2025’s close, the Ethereum mainnet will have increased its transaction throughput to 400 tps. The block gas ceilings are skyrocketing, and they are aiming at 100 million soon. What this implies is that blockchain is used faster, cheaper, and more scalable, right on Layer 1.
Moreover, Ethereum will introduce 3-Slot Finality by 2026. This will reduce the average confirmation times to 36 seconds as opposed to 15 minutes. The users will be able to perform nearly instant payments with all the security and decentralization preserved.
Privacy, Speed, and Real-World Assets Drive Ethereum’s Surge
Stańczak says that mass adoption requires privacy and data protection to be non-negotiable. Meanwhile, Buterin sees tokenized real-world assets—stocks, bonds—powering Ethereum’s growth. Such large organizations as BlackRock and Deutsche Bank are already adopting Ethereum to tokenize assets.
Such a combination of privacy, high speed, and convenient finance is the strategy that makes Ethereum acquire more and more value and applications. The protocol evolves beyond speculation toward real-world utility.
ETHKyiv 2025: Innovation Amid Crisis
Ethereum demonstrated how strong it is in the world despite the ongoing war in Ukraine, through ETHKyiv 2025. Privacy-focused dApps were developed by more than 100 hackers who had to bite their tongues on Web3. The event was an embodiment of creativity in the form of the power of a passionate community, despite tragedy.
Ethereum is successful because of the community and code pointed out by Ethereum founder Stanislav Mishin. The human-technology combination that makes up this ecosystem was emphasized in the performances and tactical training.
