The co -founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, once again sounds the alarm ring on the growing complexity of the network. In his latest reflections, Buterin proposed a new initiative urging the Ethereum community to facilitate the exploitation of nodes for daily users: he warns that dependence on third -party access points could undermine the fundamental principles of decentralization and privacy.
In short
- Buterin offers simplified use of nodes to protect reliable and independent access.
- The new “partially state -free nodes” would allow users to store only the relevant data.
- The price of the ETH fell by more than 4% while whales collect millions.
Buterin calls for without state nodes to strengthen Ethereum
Most users are connected today to Ethereum via external RPC (Remote Procedure Remote) provided by large companies. If this approach is practical, it, however, arouses serious concerns. According to Buterin, these centralized services could be subject to pressures to block users, censor certain transactions, even become surveillance targets. He maintains that the current system complicates the exploitation of local nodes by ordinary users: a challenge which he now seeks to resolve by a decisive decentralization plan.
Use a local node offers users direct and private access to Ethereum. This allows them to interact with decentralized applications and to autonomously check the activity on the blockchain. But with the explosion of the size of Ethereum, operating a complete node has become too demanding for the average user, both in terms of storage and technical maintenance.
Vitalik estimates that the Ethereum scalability roadmap has relied too much on complex cryptographic solutions such as ZK-EVM (Ethereum virtual machines with zero knowledge), which allow rapid validation of transactions. These technologies are useful, but they do not solve the fundamental problem: Ethereum must be more accessible. In a recent proposal, he describes a Orientation more compatible with local nodesinsisting that total independence should not require expert knowledge or advanced equipment.
Towards a simpler and more refined Ethereum
To reverse the trend, Vitalik recommends accelerating the adoption of the EIP-4444: a proposal that would limit the quantity of historical data that nodes must keep. If the nodes had to keep only about a month of history, their size would be largely reduced, considerably facilitating the participation of ordinary users. To ensure that the old data is not lost, it suggests distributing storage on the network using erasure coding, where each node has a small recoverable fragment of the puzzle.
It also proposes to rebalance the Ethereum gas costs system. Currently, it is inexpensive to add new data to the chain, such as the launch of new tokens or applications, but more expensive to run calculations. Inverting this balance could help control the growth of data on Ethereum, lightening the load on node operators.
A particularly original idea is the creation of “partially without state” knots “. These would validate the blocks as well as complete nodes, but would only keep the parts of the blockchain state which the user really needs. For example, a person using Ethereum mainly for decentralized finance (DEFI) could configure their node to focus only on relevant contracts and tokens.
Users could even automate these choices via an intelligent contract. This would allow everyone to personalize what their node follows, making the nodes local, lighter, faster and adapted to the activity of each person. This also reduces the need to depend on external services, helping to restore control to users.
The price of the ETH falls while the whales take their profits
While Vitalik focuses on long -term infrastructure, the market shows some short -term tremors. In the past 24 hours, the price of Ethereum has dropped by more than 4 %. This drop follows significant profits from profits by whales, according to the on-chain Lookonchain analysis platform.
An address would have unloaded 4,718 ETH for a value of $ 11.53 million: a profit of $ 3.18 million. Another portfolio sold 2,594 ETH for around $ 6.23 million, gaining $ 1.31 million. These sales fuel speculation that large actors liquidate their positions in a context of persistent changes and uncertainties on the network.
Ethereum looks to the future
This is not the first time this month that Vitalik Buterin has pleaded for simplicity. Only a few weeks ago, he called to simplify the design of the layer 1 of Ethereum, stressing that the network remains too complex for many users.
His comments arrived just before the new Ethereum Foundation's security initiative, the “Trillion Dollar Security Initiative”. Unveiled on May 14, this action aims to strengthen the defenses of Ethereum while the network aims to become a key platform for global finance. This strategic turning point marks a major acceleration in the evolution of the protocol, with the aim of securely supporting thousands of billions of dollars in economic activity without compromising decentralization or user control.
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