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The near and mid-term future of improving the Ethereum network's permissionlessness and decentralization

vitalik.eth.limo · 3,632 words · saved by 1 readers

Special thanks to Dankrad Feist, Caspar Schwarz-Schilling and Francesco for rapid feedback and review. I am sitting here writing this on the final day of an Ethereum developer interop in Kenya, where we made a large amount of progress implementing and ironing out technical details of important upcoming Ethereum improvements, most notably PeerDAS, the Verkle tree transition and decentralized approaches to storing history in the context of EIP 4444. From my own perspective, it feels like the pace of Ethereum development, and our capacity to ship large and important features that meaningfully improve the experience for node operators and (L1 and L2) users, is increasing. Ethereum client teams working together to ship the Pectra devnet. Given this greater technical capacity, one important question to be asking is: are we building toward the right goals? One prompt for thinking about this is a recent series of unhappy tweets from the long-time Geth core developer Peter Szilagyi: These are v

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