Vitalik: Ethereum has just solved the biggest problem in blockchain

‍#Vitalik announces two key facts:
ZK-EVM has reached production level
Proof time compressed to seconds, costs reduced by 45 times
PeerDAS is officially live on the mainnet
What does this mean?
👉 Decentralization + Consensus Security + Ultra-large Bandwidth
👉 The long-standing triad in blockchain considered “impossible to achieve simultaneously” has been broken through for the first time in engineering.
Ethereum’s upcoming roadmap
2026
Increase #gas capacity + Launch of the first ZK-EVM nodes
2026–2028
State re-pricing and structural adjustments to achieve secure scaling
2027–2030
Zero-knowledge proof verifiers become mainstream verification methods, with throughput making a significant leap
Security goal:
👉 Achieve 128-bit provable security by the end of 2026
Ethereum is not chasing trends but building a “foundation.”
Vitalik emphasizes again: What is Ethereum’s core mission?
He quotes a highly controversial line from the “Declaration of Trustlessness”:
Ethereum exists not for greater efficiency or convenience,
but to enable human freedom.
Why?
Because **“efficiency” and “convenience”** fundamentally optimize averages:
Latency from 473ms → 368ms
Annual yield from 4.5% → 5.3%
Registration time from 1 minute → 20 seconds
All of these are true.
But Vitalik clearly points out:
👉 On the path of “average experience optimization”
👉 Ethereum will never beat the centralized giants of Silicon Valley
What Ethereum truly aims to play is not efficiency, but “resilience”
The core of resilience is not yield, but not going to zero in extreme situations:
Banned for political reasons
Platform shutdown, developers fleeing
Cloud service outages
Even internet-scale cyberattacks
In these cases:
👉 Your system still runs
👉 Experience may be slow, but it won’t disappear
👉 Permissions won’t be unilaterally revoked
A 2000ms delay is more important than 0ms but inaccessible.
What is true “sovereignty”?
Not a UN seat
Not a Davos photo op
But:
Digital sovereignty
Reducing external dependency vulnerabilities
Not being “zeroed out” with a single click by a company thousands of kilometers away
This resilience allows people to exist as equal subjects, not as platform vassals.
Final core conclusion (very important)
Ethereum’s block space is already very abundant
But:
Decentralized, permissionless, resilient block space remains extremely scarce
So the order must not be wrong:
👉 First ensure decentralization, permissionlessness, and strong resilience
👉 Then talk about efficiency, experience, and prosperity
This is #以太坊 ’s DNA.
$ETH