Ethereum's new future

Vitalik Buterin outlined the new future of Ethereum

🤩 Ethereum co-founder published a long post about the Ethereum Foundation’s strategy — and the main message is that Ethereum no longer wants to compete only with speed and cheap transactions.

What’s changing:

🤩 Ethereum Foundation will sell less ETH

🤩 The Foundation wants to play a smaller role in managing the ecosystem

🤩 Priority is long-term network sustainability, not infinite scaling

🤩 The focus is on censorship resistance, privacy, security and open-source infrastructure.

Vitalik directly stated:

“The race only for TPS and low latency is the path to mediocrity”

According to him, the strength of Ethereum should lie elsewhere:

⚡️ Resistance to control by states and corporations

⚡️ Minimization of intermediaries

⚡️ Development of privacy

⚡️ Independence of wallet and transaction infrastructure.

⚙️ Among the technical priorities:

• AI verification of code and smart contracts

• Stronger consensus

• Development of privacy

• Reducing the dependence of wallets on centralized servers.

Separately, Buterin noted:

The Ethereum Foundation controls only about 0.16% of all ETH

— significantly less than the funds of many other blockchains.

🤩 In fact, Ethereum is trying to secure its role not as the fastest blockchain, but as a “neutral layer” for the entire Web3.