# The Future of Ethereum's State

DevFeed: [The Future of Ethereum's State](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-future-of-ethereum-s-state-17200.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/12/16/future-of-state>)

Author: Wei Han Ng; Carlos Pérez; the Stateless Consensus team

Published: 2025-12-16T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

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

Topics: [Ethereum](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ethereum.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>)

Tags: [consensus](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/consensus.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [ethereum](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ethereum.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [network](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/network.md>), [research-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/research-development.md>), [smart-contract](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/smart-contract.md>), [state](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/state.md>), [stateless](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/stateless.md>)

## AI overview

A proposal from Ethereum's Stateless Consensus team examines the growing size of Ethereum's state, which includes accounts, contract storage, and bytecode. It explains how state growth increases storage, database, RPC, and syncing demands, potentially making the network more expensive and harder to decentralize.

## Source excerpt

Disclaimer: The following blog is a proposal from the Stateless Consensus team. Content may not imply consensus views, and the EF is a broad organization that includes a healthy diversity of opinion across Protocol and beyond that together strengthen Ethereum. Special thanks to Ladislaus von Daniels and Marius van der...