Виталик Бутерин описал будущее самодостаточного Ethereum Translation: Vitalik Buterin outlines the future of self-sufficient Ethereum

Co-founder of Ethereum Vitalik Buterin outlined a set of technical requirements aimed at ensuring the blockchain’s long-term resilience without the need for constant developer involvement.

According to him, the network aims to support applications that remain functional, independent of their providers, who may lose interest over time. To meet these criteria as a foundational layer, the blockchain must pass a “failure test.”

*“This means that Ethereum must reach a state where we can effectively ‘freeze’ it if we choose to. We don’t have to stop making changes to the protocol, but we need to reach a point where the blockchain’s value proposition is not strictly reliant on functions that do not yet exist,”* emphasized Buterin.

He identified seven essential conditions to achieve this goal:

*“Ideally, we should accomplish significant work over the next few years, allowing nearly all future innovations to stem from optimizing the client side and being mirrored in the protocol through parameter adjustments,”* remarked Buterin.

In this scenario, the need for regular hard forks would diminish—upgrades would only require validator voting, similar to gas limits, he added.

According to Buterin’s plan, at least one of the outlined tasks should be implemented annually. He stressed the need for a foundational approach rather than short-term compromises to enhance Ethereum’s technological and social resilience.

Recall that in January, Buterin stated that the protocol is successfully overcoming the blockchain trilemma due to the development of zkEVM and the launch of PeerDAS. These solutions have been key components of the Fusaka hard fork, which the Ethereum team deployed on the mainnet in December.