Vitalik: Ethereum has deviated from its original intention and will focus on improving its permissionless and decentralized features in the near future

Odaily News Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published a blog post stating that Ethereum thinking in 2021 has indeed become too comfortable, shifting responsibility to a few large players, as long as there is some kind of market mechanism or zero-knowledge proof system to force centralized players to act honestly. Such systems usually work well in general, but can cause catastrophic failures in the worst case, and the current Ethereum protocol proposal has clearly deviated from that model and taken the need for a truly decentralized network more seriously. In the near and medium term, the Ethereum network will focus on improving its permissionless and decentralized features, centering on concepts such as stateless nodes, MEV mitigation, and single-slot finalization, allowing Ethereum to take a further step in the direction of decentralization. In the future, efforts will need to be continued in areas such as light client technology and decentralized cross-L2 bridges to ensure that Ethereum L1 becomes a strong foundation layer for decentralization and security. Ethereum needs to require RPC providers to provide proofs when providing results so that these results can be verified and light client technology can be extended to Layer 2 protocols. If Ethereum scales via a Rollup-centric roadmap, Layer 2 needs to have the same security and decentralization guarantees as Layer 1.