Ethereum Foundation Co-Executive Director Hsiao-Wei Wang: The large-scale adoption of Ethereum needs to overcome three major gaps: scalability, experience, and trust.

PANews, October 22 news, at the main forum of ETHShanghai 2025, Hsiao-Wei Wang, co-executive director of the Ethereum Foundation, delivered a speech titled “Mass Adoption of Ethereum: Bridging the Gap.” He stated that the vision for mass adoption of Ethereum can be reflected in three aspects: first, self-ownership, allowing users to truly own their assets; second, global settlement capabilities, enabling value to cross geographic boundaries, improving overall efficiency, and possessing the ability for global validation; third, daily utility, allowing blockchain and Ethereum to seamlessly integrate into people's daily lives like the internet, such as in everyday transfers. At the same time, she pointed out that Ethereum faces three major challenges before bridging the gap: scalability and high cost barriers, experience gaps, and trust gaps. In terms of scalability, Ethereum's roadmap is L1 ✖️ L2, with the core strategy being to achieve high throughput and low-cost transactions through L2 Rollups. Key upgrades include Dencun (EIP-4844), Pectra (Q1 2025), and Fusaka (Q4 2025). Regarding accounts and user experience, the concept of account abstraction is proposed, introducing smart accounts through proposals such as ERC-4337, EIP-7701, and EIP-7702, transforming user accounts into programmable contracts, and supporting social recovery wallets, Gas payment, and batch transaction functions. In terms of infrastructure construction, she emphasized the need for secure and stable mainchain facilities and the normalization of finance. She also stated that Ethereum's future goal is to be “invisible” and to be relied upon and trusted silently like the internet. True mass adoption is not because Ethereum itself is immense, but because it is everywhere, transparent, and reliable. Only when it exists as naturally as air does the blockchain truly realize its value.