What are Ethereum’s long-term goals? Vitalik Buterin answers at the Ethereum Forum Annual Meeting

As it turns out, for Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, building a better decentralized ecosystem is a priority. In order to build such an ecosystem, one has to endure difficulties in the short term in order to have a better situation in the long term.

To Report Vitalik Buterin shared his long-term vision for the blockchain with attendees at the Ethereum Community’s annual conference (EthCC) live in Paris on Thursday, Cointelegraph. As Buterin said in this conference, Ethereum is at a historical turning point where necessary changes must be made before the situation stabilizes.

Currently, the most important priority of Ethereum is to build a lightweight default client that facilitates the use of consensus layer, execution layer, and layer-2 solutions. Next, better support is needed for native network stakeholders or native validators of this network who have less than 32 Ethereum. These validators will validate network transactions when Ethereum becomes a fully proof-of-stake compliant blockchain. Ultimately, according to Buterin, Ethereum should run on a full node without the need for heavy hardware.

In Buterin’s long-term roadmap, we will have Ethereum with more advanced cryptographic technologies, potentially benefiting from quantum resistance. At launch, these technologies should be integrated with Ethereum Virtual Machines (ZK-EVM). Buterin also adds about future technologies:

We must be open minded [و بدون پیش‌داوری درباره تکنولوژی‌های آینده] Because we don’t know exactly what the needs are in 2032.

In this conference, the founder of Ethereum also mentioned several other proposals that he is not optimistic about. These include supporting multiple complex virtual machines, oversimplifying the protocol with black box technologies such as “zk-SNARK” or, on the contrary, complicating the protocol to such an extent that it becomes impossible for the general ecosystem to understand without the help of experts.

Ethereum is on the verge of becoming a proof-of-stake network with a project called Merge. Despite more than two years since the announcement of this program, some developers of the Ethereum ecosystem still have doubts about the security of this transfer.