Ethereum: Lean Roadmap Outlines Third Major Upgrade

Vitalik Buterin revealed that Ethereum researchers completed a Berlin meeting to advance the multi-year Lean Ethereum plan, positioning it as the network's third major iteration after the Merge.

Core Replacements Across Verification and Consensus

Recursive STARKs will replace direct re-execution as an enshrined protocol component while quantum-vulnerable elements shift to quantum-safe alternatives, decoupled consensus delivers faster finality, and multidimensional gas plus new state types scale capacity without forcing app rewrites.

ETH price at $1789.51 trades inside Bollinger Bands with upper resistance at $1825.84; the overbought RSI(14) at 75.01 combined with the MACD golden cross at 45.14 points to a probable healthy retracement toward the EMA50 support at $1668.47 before continuation, as institutional desks assess how the roadmap affects ETH price prediction amid broader crypto market moves.