What Will Ethereum Become? What Vitalik’s “Radical Simplification” Is Really Trying to Solve

[Plain English Introduction] If The Merge was Ethereum’s second form, then what Vitalik is discussing now might be its third, or even its “ultimate form.”

What’s truly worth noting is not any single proposal itself, but that Ethereum is collectively rewriting its foundational assumptions: nodes no longer re-execute everything, state no longer expands indefinitely, validator privacy is being formally incorporated into the design, and even payment models may borrow from Bitcoin.

The market often sees Ethereum upgrades as “patches and fixes,” but this article reminds us: it’s actually rebuilding the skeleton for the next decade.

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