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Social•Dec 20, 2025
Crypto Continues the Pirate Party’s Empowerment Legacy
> Crypto is building toward human empowerment, as it has been since the beginning "Empowerment" was the code of the philosophy of the Pirate Party, before crypto even existed. https://t.co/3keGzBxVYJ
By Vitalik Buterin
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Wonderland Boosts Ethereum Ecosystem with Key Interop Support
Wonderland is a great team and has been very helpful in the Ethereum ecosystem, including to the EF on interop and Kohaku, and to many Ethereum projects.
By Vitalik Buterin
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Exploring Future Paths of Popups, Networks, and Zones
My latest views on popups, network states, coordi-nations, zones, and where all of these things could lead us. (Long poast) https://t.co/g0kIWwiV59
By Vitalik Buterin
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Simplify Ethereum to Broaden Protocol Understanding and Trustlessness
An important and underrated form of trustlessness is increasing the number of people who can actually understand the whole protocol from top to bottom. Ethereum needs to get better at this (by making the protocol simpler).
By Vitalik Buterin
Social•Dec 10, 2025
Fileverse Now Stable for Secure Collaborative Document Sharing
I've been impressed by @fileverse (decentralized open-source encrypted docs https://t.co/WXjBwytG5V ). Every month more bugs get fixed, and recently it's finally at the point where I can comfortably send docs off for comment or collaboration, and things reliably don't break.
By Vitalik Buterin
Social•Dec 8, 2025
EF's PeerDAS Boosts P2P Speed, Resilience, Privacy
For years, I've complained internally at the EF that we do not have enough expertise at p2p: we think a lot about cryptoeconomics, BFT consensus and blocks, but we take the p2p networking layer for granted. I think that's no longer...
By Vitalik Buterin
Social•Dec 6, 2025
On‑chain Gas Futures Market Provides Clear Fee Forecasts
We need a good trustless onchain gas futures market. (Like, a prediction market on the BASEFEE) I've heard people ask: "today fees are low, but what about in 2 years? You say they'll stay low because of increasing gaslimit from BAL +...
By Vitalik Buterin
Social•Dec 5, 2025
Bitcoin Mining Surpasses 2^96 Hashes, Urging 128-Bit Security
My rough math based on average difficulty stats suggests that Bitcoin mining crossed the total 2**96 hashes milestone very recently? Seems like a good reason to insist on (close to) 128 bit security (ie. @drakefjustin was right) https://t.co/zrwtbdnan3
By Vitalik Buterin
Video•Dec 4, 2025
Devconnect Argentina 2025 Recap — The First Ethereum World’s Fair
The video recaps Devconnect Argentina 2025, billed as the first “Ethereum World’s Fair,” a flagship gathering organized by the Ethereum Foundation to bring together developers, creators, and users from around the globe. The event’s design emphasizes community hubs and...
By Vitalik Buterin
Social•Dec 3, 2025
Hard Invariants Strengthen Protocol Security and Efficiency
Always glad to see when people appreciate the protocol changes that add hard invariants, improving protocol security and future adaptability 2021: EIP-2929 + 3529 (SLOAD gas cost increase, refunds nerfed) 2024: SELFDESTRUCT nerf (Dencun) 2025: 16,777,216 gas per tx limit All of these put...
By Vitalik Buterin
Social•Dec 3, 2025
Fusaka Delivers True Ethereum Sharding, Yet Gaps Remain
PeerDAS in Fusaka is significant because it literally is sharding. Ethereum is coming to consensus on blocks without requiring any single node to see more than a tiny fraction of the data. And this is robust to 51% attacks - it's...
By Vitalik Buterin
Video•Dec 1, 2025
From Whiteboard to Mainnet Podcast | Episode 4: DAO Governance
The podcast episode delves into the challenges of DAO governance, focusing on how token distribution and voting mechanisms affect resilience against adversarial actors. The speakers discuss simulation‑based testing of governance protocols, measuring the cost and difficulty of attacks such as...
By Vitalik Buterin
Social•Nov 30, 2025
Vitalik Flips Stance: L2s Now Discouraged
@VitalikButerin unbelievable you told people to go to L2s before and now you're telli.g them to go back
By Vitalik Buterin
Social•Nov 30, 2025
Questioning Whether L2s Signal Crypto’s Decline
@VitalikButerin Is it cause of much of L2s or crypto is dying?
By Vitalik Buterin
Social•Nov 30, 2025
Hope Network Stays Stable During High‑Volume NFT Mint
@VitalikButerin Hope it remains same during high volume nft mint
By Vitalik Buterin
Social•Nov 30, 2025
Building Directly on Layer 1 Is Sufficient
You can just build on L1.
By Vitalik Buterin
Social•Nov 30, 2025
Privacy‑First Governance: Zk‑Votes and Reputation Delegations
@VitalikButerin privacy first governance, zk votes and reputation delegations, fam
By Vitalik Buterin
Social•Nov 30, 2025
Zcash Must Reject Token Voting to Preserve Privacy
I hope Zcash resists the dark hand of token voting. Token voting is bad in all kinds of ways (see https://t.co/Cvl7CFVgtc ); I think it's worse than Zcash's status quo. Privacy is exactly the sort of thing that will erode over time...
By Vitalik Buterin
Social•Nov 26, 2025
Funding Permissionless, Metadata‑Private Messaging Apps for Digital Privacy
Encrypted messaging, like @signalapp, is critical for preserving our digital privacy. Two important next steps for the space are (i) permissionless account creation and (ii) metadata privacy. @session_app and @SimpleXChat are two messaging apps pushing these directions forward. For this reason I've...
By Vitalik Buterin
Social•Nov 26, 2025
Targeted Gas Increases to Penalize Inefficient Ethereum Operations
Expect continued growth but more targeted / less uniform growth for next year. eg. one possible future is: 5x gas limit increase together with 5x gas cost increase for operations that are relatively inefficient to process Potential targets for such increases (my...
By Vitalik Buterin
Social•Nov 25, 2025
Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Plinko PIR
Plinko PIR tutorial: https://t.co/i7W9a5MCHi
By Vitalik Buterin
Social•Nov 25, 2025
Higher Finality Threshold Boosts Ethereum Security Despite Lower Slashing
It's looking really interesting! My fear going in was that switching to a protocol like this *really* reduces security by almost half, the last thing ethereum should do when it's one of the very few chains aiming for bitcoin-like resilience and...
By Vitalik Buterin
Social•Nov 25, 2025
Guerrilla Interoperability: Chaotic Counterpart to Har
@epochzer0 @miroyato @fileverse Guerrilla interoperability is the "chaotic" version of the thing that Harberger taxes are the "lawful" version of. (CC @glenweyl )
By Vitalik Buterin
Video•Nov 22, 2025
Devconnect ARG Closing Happy Hour & Big Announcement
The closing happy hour of DevConnect culminated in a headline announcement: the next DEF CON‑style DevConnect event will be staged in Mumbai, India, in the fourth quarter of next year. Organizers framed the decision as a natural progression from the current...
By Vitalik Buterin
Video•Nov 22, 2025
Devconnect ARG Day 5 - M2 Yellow Pavilion
The fifth day of Devconnect’s ARG series focused on the concept of native rollups and the technical infrastructure needed to make them a reality on Ethereum. Speakers outlined a proposal to expose the L1 state‑transition function to rollups via...
By Vitalik Buterin
Video•Nov 21, 2025
Ethereum Ecosystem Overview by Jason Chaskin - Devconnect
Jason Chaskin opened his Devconnect talk by framing Ethereum as the logical evolution of the cypher‑punk movement that began in the early 1990s. He traced the lineage from early cryptographers fighting governmental bans on encryption, through Bitcoin’s 2008 launch as...
By Vitalik Buterin
Video•Nov 21, 2025
Next 10 Years of Ethereum by Fede - Devconnect
In the Devconnect talk, Fede frames Ethereum not as a generic "world computer" but as the first verifiable computer, emphasizing that its economic incentives and cryptographic guarantees make every computation auditable, unlike centralized clouds such as AWS or Google. He...
By Vitalik Buterin
Video•Nov 21, 2025
Ethereum Protocol Update Scale Blobs - Devconnect
The Devconnect presentation outlined the Ethereum Foundation’s twelve‑month protocol roadmap, concentrating on three pillars: scaling the L1, scaling blobs, and improving user experience. The speakers traced the evolution from early‑year discussions—highlighted in an April blog by the new executive directors—to...
By Vitalik Buterin
Video•Nov 20, 2025
Ethereum Foundation & Ethereum Update by Hsiao Wei Wang
The video captures an address by Hsiao Wei Wang, a senior figure at the Ethereum Foundation (EF), delivered at DevConnect in Argentina. Wang frames Ethereum as a never‑ending ladder—an open, community‑driven system that lets anyone climb at their own pace. He celebrates...
By Vitalik Buterin
Video•Nov 20, 2025
Devconnect Opening by Nathan Sexer
All right, welcome to DevConnect. Nathan Sexer, the lead of this year’s DevConnect team, opened the event in Buenos Aires, framing the gathering as the first “Ethereum World’s Fair.” He highlighted the choice of Argentina not as a political or...
By Vitalik Buterin
Video•Nov 19, 2025
Solving Alignment with Ethereum by Kevin Owocki
Kevin Owocki, co‑founder of Gitcoin, used the DevConnect stage to argue that Ethereum’s programmable, trust‑less smart contracts can resolve the chronic “multipolar trap” – a situation where individually rational actions produce collectively disastrous outcomes. He framed alignment as the challenge...
By Vitalik Buterin