According to co-founder Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum needs to reach a point where its value proposition remains even if developers stop actively working on the protocol.
“We need to get to a point where Ethereum’s value proposition is not strictly dependent on any features that are no longer in the protocol,” Buterin said in his statement. post to X on Monday.
Ethereum protocols should aspire to be like hammers, he said: They remain useful once purchased, unlike services that lose functionality when the provider leaves.
While Ethereum has a long technical roadmap ahead of it, the network needs to reach a point where its core functions are fully ready, and developers can ossify if they choose, Buterin said.
“Being able to say, ‘The Ethereum protocol in its current form is cryptographically secure for a hundred years,’ is something we should strive for as soon as possible,” he added.
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To achieve this, Buterin called for a full quantum resilience solution to secure Ethereum against future cryptographic threats, and a scalable architecture, including Ethereum Zero Knowledge Virtual Machines (ZK-EVM) and Peer Data Availability Sampling (PeerDAS), would enable Ethereum to support thousands of transactions per second.
Buterin added a general-purpose account model for validating signatures, a tough gas delivery schedule free from security vulnerabilities, and a block building model that can resist centralization and censorship pressures will also be key to ensuring Ethereum stands the test of time.
“Every year we should check at least one of these boxes, and preferably several,” to “maximize Ethereum’s technological and social reliability in the long term,” he said.
Last week, Buterin said that implementing ZK-EVM and PeerDAS validation solutions would give Ethereum greater decentralization, consensus, and greater throughput – putting it in a better position to solve the blockchain trilemma that has long forced projects to sacrifice one for the other.
The Splurge part of Ethereum’s technical roadmap aims to implement cryptographic solutions that will make the network resistant to quantum attacks. However, no solution has been fully implemented yet.
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“Ideally, we would do the hard work over the next few years to get to a point where in the future almost all future innovations can be introduced through customer optimization and will be reflected in the protocol by changing parameters,” Buterin said.
Ethereum needs better decentralized stablecoins
On Sunday, Buterin also argued that Ethereum needs better decentralized stablecoins to give people more independence from the classic financial system.
He suggested a stablecoin that relies on a diversified basket of assets and currencies, rather than solely relying on one such as the US dollar, so its stability is not reliant on any one country.
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