Vitalik Buterin Outlines Ethereum's 2026 Decentralization Roadmap

News Flash 2026-01-17 09:52

Vitalik Buterin has announced plans for Ethereum to address decentralization and self-sovereignty setbacks by 2026. Key initiatives include reducing full node operation barriers using ZK-EVM and BAL, verifying RPC data authenticity with Helios, and implementing privacy queries for RPC via ORAM and PIR. Additionally, Ethereum aims to promote social recovery wallets and time locks to mitigate private key risks, enable privacy payments akin to standard transactions, and enhance privacy and censorship resistance under ERC-4337 and future account abstraction models. Buterin emphasized the need to reduce centralization in node operation, wallets, and block construction, stating that by 2026, Ethereum will no longer compromise its values for mainstream adoption. The platform plans to rebuild as a "world computer" without single points of failure or centralized control, leveraging IPFS-based on-chain application UIs to decrease reliance on centralized servers.

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