Merge is here. Whats next?

There are still a series of other updates following The Merge. The rhyming upgrades are called the surge, verge, purge, and splurge.

The surge will include the Shanghai upgrade, which will include the ability to withdraw staked ETH, and sharding, which aims to improve scalability by spreading the burden of processing and handling large amounts of data over an entire network.

The verge will let users become network validators without needing to store a lot of data, which is a massive step towards more decentralization.

The purge will aim to remove old network history.

And the splurge refers to the fine tuning of its preceded steps.

While The Merge represents a huge milestone for the Ethereum blockchain, it is certainly not going to be the only monumental event. There are still many other upgrades to come, and plenty to be excited about post ETH Merge.