# Ethereum Q2 Roundup: Network Growth, Scalability Work, and Metropolis Testing

DevFeed: [Ethereum Q2 Roundup: Network Growth, Scalability Work, and Metropolis Testing](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/roundup-q2-16808.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2017/07/08/roundup-q2>)

Author: Vitalik Buterin

Published: 2017-07-08T02:03:25Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Ethereum Foundation Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/ethereum-foundation-blog.md>)

Topics: [Ethereum](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ethereum.md>), [Network](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/network.md>), [Scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/scalability.md>), [Transactions](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/transactions.md>), [Testing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/testing.md>)

Tags: [cache](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cache.md>), [ethereum](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ethereum.md>), [metropolis](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/metropolis.md>), [network](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/network.md>), [research-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/research-development.md>), [scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scalability.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>), [transactions](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/transactions.md>)

## AI overview

An Ethereum Q2 roundup reports rapid network usage growth, increased capacity through a higher gas limit, and work on efficiency and long-term scalability. It also covers research into Casper and sharding, Metropolis testing, and Mist wallet development focused on synchronization and account key management.

## Source excerpt

Thanks to all the developers and team leads who contributed to the sections on their projects In the last month and a half, the Ethereum network went through a rapid growth in usage, to the point that it now processes as many transactions per second as Bitcoin. To accommodate...