Etherum's Blockchain Trilemma 'Solved': Vitalik Buterin
Vitalik Buterin claims Ethereum has effectively solved the blockchain trilemma—achieving security, decentralization, and scalability—due to recent upgrades. Key advancements include the deployment of PeerDAS, a technology that enables data availability sampling without requiring full data downloads, and nearly production-ready Zero-Knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machines (ZK-EVMs). PeerDAS reduces validator burdens and boosts throughput, targeting up to 12,000 transactions per second by 2026, while ZK-EVMs will gradually be adopted across the network. These developments, marked most recently by the Fusaka upgrade, differ fundamentally from earlier decentralized systems like BitTorrent and Bitcoin by distributing data, execution, and validation roles. Over the next several years, Ethereum expects multiple scaling improvements: incremental gas limit increases, state structure upgrades, and execution payload optimizations. Buterin also advocates for long-term goals such as distributed block building to further reduce centralization risks. Despite current ETH price volatility, market sentiment is cautiously optimistic about Ethereum’s future growth and technical progress.
