Vitalik Buterin Says Ethereum's Next Major Upgrade Will Take Three to Four Years and Rival the Merge

Key takeaway

"Vitalik Buterin Says Ethereum's Next Major Upgrade Will Take Three to Four Years and Rival the Merge" — BullBear's AI rates this story as a mixed, direction-neutral signal, with a market-impact score of 50 out of 100. Vitalik Buterin stated that Ethereum's next major upgrade will take three to four years and will be comparable in significance to 'The Merge'. That score reflects how strongly the story is likely to move Bitcoin, US equities, the dollar, and gold, and near-duplicate coverage of the same event is clustered so only the representative article is scored. BullBear analyzes hundreds of market stories a day this way, turning each into a structured bullish, bearish, or mixed read rather than a raw headline, so the signal can be compared across sources and over time. Reported by Google News Bitcoin (EN) on July 06, 2026. The bullish and bearish evidence behind this assessment, plus a 24-hour price-move check that verifies the call against what actually happened, are all tracked publicly on BullBear.news.