ETHEREUM 2.0

Ethereum Upgrades

Building a network that is more sustainable, secure and scalable

Envisioning a future Ethereum

From the genesis block, ConsenSys has helped to build and democratize Ethereum. We believe that through decentralized networks like Ethereum humankind can achieve more, and we’ve contributed our people, products and resources to help drive its evolution.

More scalable

Investing in Layer 1 and Layer 2 upgrades to support 1000s of transactions per second and make dapps faster and cheaper to use

More secure

Formal verification of core protocol changes and helping to scale the staking mechanism needed to secure and decentralize Ethereum

More sustainable

Defining, testing and supporting the transition to Proof of Stake

ConsenSys & Ethereum

From the launch of Ethereum, ConsenSys was formed with the goal to be the strongest force for decentralization on the planet. ConsenSys researchers, protocol developers, client teams and cryptographers from around the globe have contributed to nearly every major Ethereum milestone.

Constantinople
Improve scalability with state channels

Beacon Chain Genesis
Executable Beacon Chain Proposal and Formal Verification of Spec

London
Helped design fee optimization scheme

Paris
Readied devs, tested the Merge and prepared Ethereum at Amphora

Shanghai
Preparing validator withdrawals at Edelweiss Interop

Cancun
Adding randomness and preparing for 4844

Upgrading Ethereum

The Merge

By evolving the network’s approach to consensus, the Merge will reduce Ethereum's energy requirements by 99.95% ensuring that the network can sustainably support the next generation of web3 creators and developers.

Explore the Merge Understanding EIP 1559

Eth Staking & Withdrawals

The Shanghai/Capella upgrade is doubly named because it is the first simultaneous upgrade of Ethereum’s execution and consensus layers—designed to enable staked ETH withdrawals.

What Shanghai means Solo Staking with Besu & Teku

Scalability (Sharding and zk)

The combination of sharding with the explosion of rollup innovation promises to address concerns around scalability

Learn about Rollups Learn about zkEVMs Learn about KZG

Diverse and Open

Client, validator and layer-2 diversity ensures a healthy and scalable network

Learn about Client Diversity Learn about L2s and the Merge

Explore a day in the life of an Ethereum Core Developer with Justin Florentine

Get Started: Become a Validator

While staking services will undoubtedly flower post-Merge, single-node validators are an important driver of decentralized resilience. ConsenSys Academy’s Coogan Brennan documented his journey to becoming an Eth2 validator.