Ethereum must pass 'walkaway test' to endure for 100 years: Buterin

Ethereum needs to get to a constituent wherever its worth proposition remains adjacent if developers halt progressive enactment connected the protocol, according to its co-founder Vitalik Buterin.

“We indispensable get to a spot wherever Ethereum's worth proposition does not strictly beryllium connected immoderate features that are not successful the protocol already,” said Buterin successful a post to X connected Monday.

He said Ethereum protocols should aspire to beryllium similar hammers: erstwhile purchased, they stay usable, dissimilar services that suffer functionality erstwhile a vendor walks away.

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While Ethereum has a agelong technical roadmap ahead, the web needs to scope a constituent wherever its halfway features are afloat successful place, and builders tin ossify if they choose, Buterin said.

“Being capable to accidental ‘Ethereum's protocol, arsenic it stands today, is cryptographically harmless for a 100 years’ is thing we should strive to get to arsenic soon arsenic possible,” helium added.

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To execute this, Buterin called for a afloat quantum-resistance solution to unafraid Ethereum against aboriginal cryptographic threats, portion a scalable architecture, including Zero-Knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machines (ZK-EVM) and Peer Data Availability Sampling (PeerDAS), would alteration Ethereum to grip thousands of transactions per second. 

Buterin added a general-purpose relationship exemplary for signature validation, a robust state docket escaped of information vulnerabilities, and a block-building exemplary that tin defy centralization and censorship pressures, volition besides important to guarantee Ethereum stands the trial of time.

“Every year, we should tick disconnected astatine slightest 1 of these boxes, and ideally multiple,” successful bid to “maximize Ethereum's technological and societal robustness for the agelong term,” helium said.

Last week, Buterin said implementing ZK-EVM validation and PeerDAS solutions would springiness Ethereum greater decentralization, consensus, and precocious bandwidth — amended positioning it to lick the blockchain trilemma that has agelong forced projects to sacrifice 1 for the others.

The Splurge portion of the Ethereum method roadmap seeks to implement cryptography solutions that marque the web resistant to quantum attacks. No solution has been afloat rolled retired yet, however.

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“Ideally, we bash the hard enactment implicit the adjacent fewer years, to get to a constituent wherever successful the aboriginal astir each aboriginal innovation tin hap done lawsuit optimization, and get reflected successful the protocol done parameter changes,” said Buterin. 

Ethereum needs amended decentralized stablecoins

On Sunday, Buterin besides argued that Ethereum needs amended decentralized stablecoins to springiness radical greater independency from the accepted concern system.

He suggested a stablecoin backed by a diversified handbasket of assets and currencies, alternatively than relying solely connected one, similar the US dollar, truthful its stableness isn’t babelike connected a azygous nation.

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