Ethereum's Next Decade | Vitalik Buterin

Bullish:

• $ZKSNARKS - ZK EVMs are nearing production readiness, indicating significant progress in Ethereum's scalability and privacy solutions.

  • “ZK EVMs are almost production ready this year in a way that was totally not true, I think, even one year ago. So that's one thing that a lot of us are leaning in on explicitly.”

    Vitalik·1:15:14
• $ETH - Ethereum's native token ETH is crucial for ecosystem alignment, with potential for significant scalability improvements and a vision for becoming the default platform for decentralized finance.

  • “I think ETH is the biggest thing that everyone in the Ethereum ecosystem is economically aligned on. So I think maintaining a strong role for ETH is important just for that reason.”

    Vitalik·1:45:22

  • “I think finance happening on Ethereum by default would be amazing. If we actually get to a world where the financial infrastructure is such an infrastructure that if a user wants to, they actually can open up developer mode and take their assets out of one application and then start to use other applications instead.”

    Vitalik·1:53:56

  • “I definitely think there's a lot of headroom to optimize. And I definitely think we're going much further than the current 45,000,000 level.”

    Vitalik·1:20:41
• $PRIVACY - Privacy is viewed as a fundamental right and an essential aspect of blockchain technology, particularly in Ethereum's development.

  • “I think privacy actually has a lot of those same properties, right? Because privacy, privacy is freedom. Privacy is a very important right that we're all here to protect.”

    Vitalik·25:41