Vitalik Buterin Founder of Ethereum (ETH)announced new improvements to address persistent challenges in decentralized networks. The announcement comes as Ethereum price has surged more than 8% since the beginning of the year, marking a strong rebound from previous bearish trends.
Ethereum founder shares solution to network problems
As ETH recovers, Buterin returns with a solution to a long-standing network problem. Pushing the price above $3,220. Founder of Ethereum disclosed The Zero Knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine (zkEVM) has reached alpha stage and offers production-quality performance, but a final safety audit is still underway. at the same time, Peer Data Availability Sampling (PeerDAS) is already live on mainnet, providing a key part of Ethereum’s next-generation infrastructure.
According to Buterin, these upgrades are more than just small improvements. They will fundamentally transform Ethereum into something more powerful and resilient decentralized network. He compared the evolution of Ethereum to earlier peer-to-peer networks such as BitTorrent and Bitcoin. BitTorrent offered massive bandwidth and decentralization, but lacked consensus. Conversely, Bitcoin has ensured decentralization and consensus, but at the cost of bandwidth.
With the introduction of PeerDAS, zkEVMButerin said ETH has officially achieved full decentralization, consensus, and high bandwidth. He describes this milestone as follows: Solving the blockchain “trilemma” Use code that works live. He also emphasized that these developments represent a decade of work, dating back to early commitments around data availability sampling and the start of zkEVM development around 2020.
Looking ahead, Ethereum founders expect the complete vision for the network to unfold over the next four years. In 2026, he gas limit zkEVM nodes start operating on segments of the network while increasing thanks to block-level access lists (BALs) and Enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation (ePBS). Buterin says Ethereum will undergo correction from 2026 to 2028 gas pricerebuild the state and consolidate the execution payload into a BLOB to safely accommodate higher limits.
Finally, from 2027 to 2030, zkEVM is expected to become the primary method of block validation, enabling further large-scale increases in gas limits. Buterin suggests that these upcoming advances will solve long-standing problems in decentralized networks where only two of the three key characteristics can coexist: decentralization, security, and speed. Thanks to a new upgrade, ETH has all three.
Buterin outlines plans to build distributed blocks
In his post, Buterin revealed further network upgrades focused on: Distributed block construction. He envisions a long-term goal of never having a complete block assembled in a single location. Although this is not an immediate need, the founders believe it is important to start developing this functionality to prepare for the future of blockchain networks.
However, he stressed that block construction authority should remain as widely distributed as possible. This can be done in two ways. One is within the protocol itself by extending the Fork Choice Enforced Inclusion List (FOCIL) to process transactions, and the other is externally through a decentralized builder marketplace. According to Buterin, these efforts aim to reduce the risk of intensive intervention on transaction inclusion. At the same time, it promotes greater geographic equity across the Ethereum network.
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