Ethereum completed its tenth year on July 30, 2025, reaching a decade since its first block was created. Since July 2015, it has grown into one of the most influential blockchain platforms, now at the center of digital assets, decentralized applications, and institutional finance.
As developers and community members reflected on this milestone, the network also looked ahead, laying out a clear path that reaches into 2035, with major upgrades lined up, including the upcoming Fusaka fork. Ethereum’s core developers are aiming not just to maintain relevance but to reshape how the digital economy functions globally.
Ethereum’s Technical Goals
Ethereum’s next ten years are being mapped through a multi-stage strategy aimed at overhauling scalability, improving client performance, and tightening the overall experience for users and validators alike. Developers have split this timeline into structured stages: the Surge, Verge, and Purity phases are already visible on the roadmap.
Institutions are beginning to prepare for Ethereum becoming a default platform for tokenized assets, finance applications, and autonomous agents. RedStone has expressed support for Ethereum becoming the foundation for asset tokenization and high-frequency decentralized finance, where users might not even realize blockchain is in use.
For companies like GameSquare, Ethereum represents a long-term digital asset that strengthens connections between online economies and digital identity.
Analysts from ConsenSys view Ethereum evolving into “trustware,” a base layer that powers everything from stablecoins to real-world tokenized assets. This shift comes with Ethereum’s broader plan of embedding itself into commerce, public records, and identity systems, making it a core element in digital infrastructure over the next decade.
Fusaka: A Key Upgrade Targeted for November 2025
Fusaka, Ethereum’s next protocol upgrade, is scheduled for early November 2025. It is expected between November 5 and 12, overlapping with the Devconnect conference in Buenos Aires. Developers finalized its structure following testnets in July, and ongoing public testing is scheduled for late September and October.
The update introduces at least 11 Ethereum Improvement Proposals. One of the most discussed is EIP‑7594, also known as PeerDAS (Peer‑to‑Peer Data Availability Sampling). This feature will allow Ethereum nodes to check rollup data more efficiently by verifying samples instead of entire blobs. The aim is to reduce computational strain and allow faster throughput.
Another key proposal is a gas limit increase to 45 million units per block, compared to the current level of around 37 million. This move is expected to raise transaction throughput from roughly 15 to 18 transactions per second. EIP‑7825 will implement a gas cap per transaction at 16.77 million, preventing large operations from monopolizing entire blocks.
Some proposals, such as EIP‑7907, which would have raised the contract code size limit, were excluded to preserve network stability. Developers chose to concentrate on measures that immediately impact scalability and validator performance rather than broader architecture changes at this stage.
Will ETH Break $4K or Pull Back Hard Again?
In terms of market performance, Ethereum showed strong upward momentum this summer. After touching lows around $1,500 earlier in April, the price rose steadily and by the end of July crossed above $3,800. Over the past week, ETH surged 40%, while on a yearly basis it rose about 15%.
At the time of writing, ETH is trading at 3,577, falling 5.44% in the last 24 hours. Resistance remained below $3,800, while support remains at $2,800. Any breakout could push the ETH price into $4,000 to $5,000 zone in Q4 2025. Forecasts stretching into 2027 and 2030 suggest a trading range from $10,000 to $15,000 – assuming institutional adoption and network upgrades stay on schedule.
Closing Thoughts
Ethereum’s long-term direction is not simply about technology – it’s about becoming an essential part of how value moves in digital form. From a developer-led network in 2015 to a foundation of institutional and enterprise-grade infrastructure in 2025, the shift is already underway.
Plans over the next decade include support for AI-controlled wallets, automated on-chain operations, and real-time interaction between users and smart contracts with minimal friction. The goal is for Ethereum to handle this activity quietly in the background, with scale and stability.
