Crypto
Buterin: Hegotá May Be Ethereum's Last 'Normal' Fork
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin suggests that Hegotá may be the last 'normal' fork for the network.
In a recent post, he framed Hegotá as a bridge toward a broader shift: Ethereum moving from a traditional blockchain to a 'cryptographic world computer.'
This shift involves relying on cryptographic proofs to verify offchain computation and preserve privacy. Buterin highlighted PeerDAS as an earlier building block for this transition.
The PeerDAS system uses sampling to let nodes verify data availability without downloading everything, representing a change in the underlying relationship between nodes and the data they validate.