# Ethereum Roadmap explainer for the rest of us

Source: https://x.com/evan_van_ness/status/1851499710835748939
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Ethereum-Roadmap-explainer-for-the-rest-of-us?index=0x6721f44161ca75140e62116ee4f308cb133dfbca43f3ca2eb6914589aa72e26f7ae193ac
Submitted by macbudkowski.eth on 2024-10-30 UTC, 1 upvote, 0 comments

## Summary

This thread aims to explain Vitalik Buterin's Ethereum roadmap series in plain terms, starting with part 1 on "The Merge," which took place on September 15, 2022. The poster asks why a roadmap post covers an event from two years earlier and answers that Ethereum was the first truly decentralized proof-of-stake chain. The post also says it has far more stakers than any other chain and that the network's years in production have shown what can be improved.

## Article

ETHEREUM ROADMAP EXPLAINER FOR THE REST OF US, part 1 

This thread will attempt to dumb down @VitalikButerin's series so that even the your average political science major like me can understand it

Let's discuss part 1, "The Merge" which happened on September 15, 2022

Why is a roadmap post talking about something from 2 years ago?

Because Ethereum was the first truly decentralized proof of stake chain.

It has magnitudes more stakers than any other chain. 

In the past years we have learned things, and also we have seen the system in production, so we can make  improvements.