🆕 Vitalik Buterin Announces Major Ethereum Upgrades

🚀 Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has revealed that recent upgrades have significantly enhanced the blockchain's performance. He stated that zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machines (ZK-EVMs) have achieved production-quality performance and that PeerDAS data-availability sampling is now operational on the mainnet. These advancements provide Ethereum with decentralized consensus and high bandwidth.

🔄 Buterin compared these improvements to previous peer-to-peer models like Bittorrent's bandwidth-heavy, consensus-free design and Bitcoin's consensus-only, low-bandwidth replication. He emphasized that the remaining work focuses on safety, with full ZK-EVM deployment expected by 2026 and larger gas-limit increases anticipated through 2027-2030.

🗺 Additionally, Buterin outlined a roadmap for distributed block building aimed at reducing centralized control and enhancing geographic fairness, all while adhering to applicable regulatory environments.