2026 is going to be insane.
Hard to pick my favorite roadmap item (🔥), but "dynamic opcode repricing" (aka gas rebates) is gonna change the L2 scalability game.
We're modularizing L2 gas market & enabling chains to customize their gas pricing, and it'll be huge for
a) scaling of general purpose chains; and
b) app specific chain optimizations so chains can further differentiate.
But why does a fee market change impact scaling?
Crypto is unique in that we charge fees proportional to compute costs, but right now, the gas markets are way out of wack (10x+ perf discrepancies between best and worst case perf). This discrepancy is effectively incentivizing spam. Plus, gas is one size fits all so app specific node optimizations aren't possible. If we get this right then we can turn MEV Searchers into Performance Optimizoors and unlock chains ability to performance optimize.
Also if you want to get a better intuition for why fee markets are so critical for high performance, take a look at http:/evmscaling.com !!
Absurdly hype for 2026!!! And btw my favorite feature we're shipping this year wasn't even in jings post 🤫 got even more cookin. Feeling optimistic
twitter.com/karl_dot_tech/stat...
