# vitalik on beam chain

Source: https://warpcast.com/vitalik.eth/0x8343c5d3

## Summary

Vitalik Buterin argues that the Beam Chain roadmap, which drew criticism for its "2029" date, is a separate workstream from the near-term work on scaling blobs, and that Ethereum needs a clean, simple protocol that removes large amounts of technical bloat. He says that in 2025 the network needs blobs and L1 cost reductions such as EIP-4444, and in 2026 it needs more blobs. He names Justin Drake, Dankrad Feist and Francesco (fradamt) as contributors who are pushing this research forward. By 2030, he says, Ethereum will also need long-term robust economics and staking decentralization.

## Article

@drakefjustin's work is incredibly valuable to ethereum's future, especially those of us who care about keeping the protocol decentralized and secure long-term and fighting against the zoo of technical bloat.

The beam chain roadmap got criticism for the "2029" date, but what that criticism misses is that the beam chain roadmap is a completely separate and parallel workstream from the work that is happening already to meet users' needs in the short term (basically, scaling blobs, where @dankrad has for years played a leading and invaluable part)

In 2025, we need blobs (and L1 cost reductions like EIP-4444). In 2026, we need more blobs. @fradamt @dankrad and many others are heroes for pushing forward the research here. By 2030, we need other things:

* Long-term robust economics
* Long-term robust staking decentralization
* A clean and simple protocol, something worthy of a chain that aspires to be a neutral global base layer. This means zeroing out huge amounts of technical bloat

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