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Ethereum Creator Vitalik Buterin Refutes Claims of ETH Centralization
Tomiwabold Olajide
Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin Responds to Recent Allegations of ETH Network Centralization
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Founder of Ethereum Vitalik Buterin has responded to recent allegations by Ethereum team lead Péter Szilágyi, “karalabe.eth,” regarding the alleged centralization of the Ethereum network.
Szilágyi claimed in an X post that PeerDAS was the direction Ethereum was headed with upcoming forks, with the intention of increasing, but not immediately, blobs to a staggering 32MB.
According to him, Ethereum is “losing its mind,” and the research team “has fully embraced the idea of centralizing everything, as long as it can be verified.” This, he says, is a nice charade of decentralized validation but centralized control.
Szilágyi’s claims that “the research team has fully embraced the idea of centralizing everything as long as it can be verified” caught the attention of the Ethereum founder. Vitalik Buterinwho reported this as false.
Buterin stressed that the Ethereum team has been deeply engaged in discussions aimed at minimizing centralization, not promoting it.
Efforts to minimize centralization
Buterin listed several key discussions and suggestions aimed at minimizing centralization, including a thorough analysis of multiple proposals and determining whether the builder role could be eliminated.
THE Ethereum The team also shared ideas for making fork choice dependent on transaction inclusion while maximizing the power of inclusion lists (FOCIL).
Other suggestions include an analysis of Orbit’s single-slot finality (SSF) and considerations of accelerating the deployment of the Orbit mechanism, which has the potential to reduce minimum deposit sizes by about ten times before single-slot finality is achieved. SSF is still in the research phase.
It takes about 15 minutes to finalize an Ethereum block. However, research is underway to improve the efficiency with which Ethereum’s consensus mechanism validates blocks and significantly reduce the finalization time. Instead of waiting 15 minutes, blocks could be proposed and finalized in the same slot. This concept is called single-slot finality (SSF).
Other suggestions highlighted by Buterin in his X paper include building distributed blocks for PeerDAS, network analysis and bandwidth optimization of PeerDAS and fullDAS, ways to make recovery from 51% attacks more partially automated and less reliant on the “social layer,” and ensuring that inclusion lists fully apply to blobs and abstract native account transactions, e.g. EIP-7560.
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Tomiwabold Olajide
Tomiwabold is an experienced cryptocurrency analyst and technical analyst. He pays special attention to cryptocurrency research, conducting comprehensive price analyses and trading forecasts on estimated market trends. Tomiwabold graduated from the University of Lagos.