Vitalik: Ethereum should become a trustless or minimally trust-based application infrastructure

WuSaidBlockchainW · 2026-01-12T09:02:32+00:00

Vitalik stated that Ethereum needs to become a trustless infrastructure with protocol immutability capabilities. Its core goals include quantum resistance, long-term scalable architecture, and censorship resistance mechanisms. He responded to community concerns about ZK-EVM L2, emphasizing that the new consensus layer has been designed with ZK as its core from the beginning and is exploring more user-friendly execution solutions.

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2026-01-12 09:02:32

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Wu Shuo learned that Vitalik posted an article stating that Ethereum should become a trustless or minimally trust-based application infrastructure. It cannot rely solely on continuous “developer maintenance” to operate and must have the ability to ossify the protocol when necessary. Its core goals include: achieving complete quantum resistance as soon as possible, supporting long-term scalable architectures for ZK-EVM and PeerDAS, a sustainable state model lasting decades, full account abstraction, a gas pricing mechanism without DoS risks, a long-term decentralized PoS economic model, and a censorship-resistant block construction mechanism. Vitalik emphasized that these key infrastructures should be completed within the next few years to lay the foundation for Ethereum’s long-term technological and social resilience.

Wu Shuo learned that in response to community users’ doubts that Ethereum’s ZK-EVM L2 is a “post-hoc modification, halfway solution” rather than a native ZK architecture (such as Miden, Starknet/Cairo), Vitalik stated that Ethereum’s new consensus layer (leanCL) has been designed from the outset with ZK as the core consideration. Regarding the execution layer, RISC-V is one of the more ZK-friendly potential options, and the team is also exploring other alternatives.

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