Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum ‘fails’ without these 3 important ‘transitions’

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin believes the occurrence of Ethereum volition travel down to 3 large method “transitions” that request to hap astir simultaneously — layer-2 scaling, wallet security, and privacy-preserving features.

In a June 9 station via his idiosyncratic blog, Buterin explained that the Ethereum blockchain outright “fails” without capable scaling infrastructure to make transactions cheap.

“Ethereum fails due to the fact that each transaction costs $3.75 ($82.48 if we person different bull run), and each merchandise aiming for the wide marketplace inevitably forgets astir the concatenation and adopts centralized workarounds for everything,” helium said.

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— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) June 9, 2023

Another constituent of failure, according to Buterin, is astir wallet information arsenic it relates to astute declaration wallets. 

He explained that a determination to smart declaration wallets has added much complexity for users wishing to get the aforesaid code crossed Ethereum and assorted layer-2s.

Buterin said this contented stands for some Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)-equivalent and non-equivalent layer-2s:

“Even erstwhile you tin person hash equivalence, the anticipation of wallets changing ownership done cardinal changes creates different unintuitive consequences.”

Ethereum needs to amended its layer-2 scalability, wallet information and privateness features, according to Buterin. Source: Vitalik.eth.

In summation to wallets securing crypto assets, Buterin explained that wallets volition request to unafraid information successful bid to genuinely modulation into an on-chain satellite with zero-knowledge rollups:

“In a ZK world, however, this is nary longer true: the wallet is not conscionable protecting authentication credentials, it's besides holding your data.”

The past of Buterin’s 3 transitions — privateness — volition request to travel successful the signifier of improved identity, estimation and societal betterment systems.

“Without the third, Ethereum fails due to the fact that having each transactions (and POAPs, etc) disposable publically for virtually anyone to spot is acold excessively precocious a privateness sacrifice for galore users, and everyone moves onto centralized solutions that astatine slightest somewhat fell your data,” helium said.

The Ethereum co-founder suggested that stealth addresses could beryllium implemented to resoluteness this issue.

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Buterin said achieving each 3 volition beryllium “challenging” due to the fact that of the “intense coordination” progressive betwixt them.

He admitted that each of the 3 transitions “weaken” the “one idiosyncratic — 1 address” model, which, successful turn, whitethorn complicate the mode transactions are executed.

“If you privation to wage someone, however volition you get the accusation connected however to wage them?”

“If users person galore assets stored successful antithetic places crossed antithetic chains, however bash they bash cardinal changes and societal recovery?" helium added.

Buterin concluded by stressing the request to physique infrastructure that ultimately improvers idiosyncratic experience:

“Despite the challenges, achieving scalability, wallet security, and privateness for regular users is important for Ethereum's future. It is not conscionable astir method feasibility but astir existent accessibility for regular users. We request to emergence to conscionable this challenge.”

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