Buterin Maps Ethereum's Path to 2030: 'Not Just a Blockchain Anymore'

Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, outlined how he thinks the blockchain will evolve by 2030. He described it as a combination of blockchain design and modern cryptography.

The Hegota upgrade planned for next year is likely to be Ethereum's last 'normal' fork, with later upgrades involving recursive STARKs, automated formal verification, highly optimized consensus algorithms, and quantum-safe cryptography.

By 2030, Buterin expects nodes to sample data through PeerDAS and verify SNARKs instead of downloading and re-executing every block, while signatures would be aggregated offchain. He projected slots of 4 to 8 seconds and finality of 8 to 32 seconds by 2030.