Vitalik Buterin

Vitalik believes that historically, applications that bring economic benefits (such as NFTs, meme coins, and speculative DeFi) are disconnected from applications that align with the original intention of Ethereum's decentralization (such as ENS and privacy protocols). He suggests that low-risk DeFi will be key to resolving this contradiction, and its significance to Ethereum is akin to that of search to Google.

Vitalik believes that the L2 scaling route should be continued, but L2 needs to fulfill its commitments, such as contributing a certain revenue to support ETH.

Wallets are the window between users and the Ethereum world, and I believe that focusing on security and privacy attributes is the most valuable.

The article discusses the challenges faced by Ethereum in how to reduce complexity and storage requirements in the long term while maintaining the chain's persistence and decentralization.

The development goal of Ethereum has always revolved around technological advancement. Since 2015, despite facing challenges such as high transaction fees and slow transaction confirmation speeds, significant innovations like Layer 2 technology and the EIP-1559 protocol have notably reduced transaction costs and improved transaction confirmation speeds.

What is the Surge phase like? DA, data compression, Generalized Plasma, improvements in cross-L2 interoperability, scaling execution on L1, etc...

Currently, every Ethereum protocol component that relies on elliptic curves requires some alternative based on hashing or other quantum resistance.

The current cryptocurrency field is no longer in its early stages.

The gluers should be optimized to become good gluers, and the coprocessors should also be optimized to become good coprocessors.

"I think they are all trying to address a crucial issue: having a concrete and positive imagination of a technologically advanced future, rather than just the 3478th Black Mirror-style Hollywood dystopia."