# Ethereum Rebuilds Its Base Layer for Throughput

Ethereum research keeps restructuring core state storage and the consensus pipeline to raise layer-1 throughput, a dynamic that repeatedly shifts activity and economics back toward mainnet and away from marginal rollups.

- Conviction: 33 / 100 (weakening)
- Horizon: Emerging (watchlist)
- Tracking since: 2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z
- Last updated: 2026-10-12T14:07:13.213Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/crypto/trends/ethereum-l1-scaling-redesign
- Publisher: Polylog
- Affected regions: Global

## Recent score history

- 2026-10-11: 35
- 2026-10-12: 33

## Recent evidence

- [confirms] Ethereum researchers price the cost of censorship under multiple proposers and warn of orphaned bytecode in state redesign (2026-10-08): Another Ethereum Research post warns that the proposed SETCODEFROM opcode in the state redesign would leave orphaned bytecode with no one assigned to clean it up. Restructuring core state is still active and is producing its own second-order problems.
- [confirms] Ethereum researchers debate how to handle orphaned code and serial block verification as base-layer redesign work continues (2026-10-07): Ethereum research posts debate two things. First, whether a proposed opcode combined with moving contract code into the state root could leave nodes that synced differently holding different state. Second, a proposal to let block production run ahead of validation. Both show state storage and the consensus pipeline are still being restructured for throughput, and that the work carries consensus-safety tradeoffs.

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