According to @VitalikButerin, researcher Dankrad has made significant contributions to Ethereum including Danksharding and consensus research and is now pursuing new efforts. Source: https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1979140260622930348 For traders, Danksharding remains a core scaling milestone on Ethereum’s roadmap aimed at expanding blob-based data availability to further compress Layer 2 transaction costs over time. Source: https://ethereum.org/en/roadmap/danksharding/ Proto-danksharding EIP-4844 is already live on mainnet via the Dencun upgrade, introducing blob transactions that reduce rollup data availability costs and shape L2 fee dynamics closely tracked by markets. Source: https://blog.ethereum.org/2024/03/13/dencun-mainnet and https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-4844 No details about Dankrad’s next role or any roadmap change were disclosed, so there is no direct timeline update for traders to price in from this post. Source: https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1979140260622930348 Traders can monitor ETH price action alongside L2 gas and blob base fee metrics, as EIP-4844 established a blob gas market that directly impacts rollup costs and user fees. Source: https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-4844