Vitalik Buterin

Recent claims

• Verkle trees enabling stateless clients will be implemented as part of the Fusaka/Fulu upgrade.
  Nov 25, 2025
• Ethereum needs to transition to quantum-resistant cryptography within the next four years, before the 2028 U.S. presidential election.
  Nov 19, 2025
• The network has four years to overhaul its cryptographic defenses to be quantum-resistant.
  Nov 19, 2025
• Zero-Knowledge (ZK) technology will allow consumer smartphones to run full nodes within two years from November 2025.
  Nov 18, 2025
• Gas pricing optimization and Layer 1 enhancements, including the introduction of EOF (Ethereum Object Format) for more efficient smart contract execution, potential adoption of multidimensional gas pricing, and possible native rollup solutions directly integrated into Ethereum's protocol, will be introduced.
  Oct 14, 2025
• Rollups like Arbitrum, Optimism, and zkSync will be updated to improve their scalability, new cryptographic proofs (e.g., SNARKs) will improve trustlessness, and Data Availability Sampling (DAS) systems such as PeerDAS and 2D DAS will expand to support higher transaction throughput.
  Oct 14, 2025
• Ethereum will transition to quantum-resistant algorithms to defend against potential quantum computing threats.
  Sep 24, 2025
• Ethereum Layer-1 transaction confirmation times will be slashed to 12 seconds through single-slot finality.
  Sep 24, 2025
• Ethereum will become more user-friendly, with users able to easily take control of their own accounts and find it simple to set up their own solutions on the Ethereum blockchain.
  Jul 1, 2025
• Ethereum's Layer 1 will be scaled by 10 times in approximately a year (from June 2025).
  Jun 2, 2025