Ethereum has crucial underlying problem that has to be fixed at some point
The amount of resources that Ethereum needs to sustain itself is increasing day by day and at a certain point, this burden will increase to infinity, causing serious problems for the network. Stability,
Technically, Ethereum is the World Computer, a platform that exists with the support of thousands of nodes. The node system is what makes Ethereum the network we know: nodes provide the hardware, EVM provides the virtual computer and the blockchain records every transaction made in Ether’s history.
Virtual machines are stored in a data structure called a Merkle tree. Its main use is to verify the data stored, handled and transferred between computers. Merkle trees ensure the authenticity of data received from other peers on the network.
However, there are some downsides, the most problematic one being scaling. As of today, the World Computer stores the entire EVM, including every entry, account and address going back to its genesis. While storing that amount of data is not causing problems today, it will become a problem in the future, growing to infinity. Luckily, there is a solution called “state expiry.”
With state termination, portions of the state default become inactive and must be renewed by “touching”, essentially reaching a state that will defer termination. Thanks to the mechanism, the position size of the EVMs will remain reasonable and make room for new items.
While the offer to solve existing Merkle tree scaling issues sounds good on paper, implementing it would be a complicated process that would take a lot of time and manpower. However, the most recent transition to PoS proved that anything is possible with Ether.
