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What Vitalik Buterin has said about ethereum
Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum. 4 statements from September 27, 2026 to October 19, 2026, each quoted word for word from the original and checked before publication. Newest first.
- October 19, 2026 · on X
“Ultimately, precompiles and EVM are both the wrong place to put most cryptography support into Ethereum. The reason is that precompiles and EVM both operate on data that has to be included into the ethereum chain somehow, which realistically means included in a block as calldata. That space is limited - even with PeerDAS and blocks-in-blobs, there's a practical cap of ~8 MB/s before it starts getting uncomfortable. Remember: it's not a blockchain. It's a cryptographic world computer. Any data/computation that do…”
Vitalik Buterin Proposes EIP-8288 Maximalism for Ethereum Cryptography →
- October 14, 2026 · on X
“Big congratulations to the @zksync airbender team for this milestone. At this point, I consider the battle for speed to be definitively won, and the top priority for zkEVMs should shift fully to security. To me that means formally verifying (i) equivalence of the arithmetization to the ethereum spec (ii) a hard maximum bound on (prover cost) / (amount of gas in block) (iii) security of the proof system itself”
- October 7, 2026 · on X
“I don't recommend anyone scramble to move their funds to new wallets today. But we should take the risks to cryptography from AI-accelerated math seriously, and minimize our exposure to not just quantum-vulnerable cryptography, but also potentially AI-vulnerable cryptography. The core new area of risk from this viewpoint is, unfortunately, ML-DSA / FHE / lattices. (and it's also another reason, along with quantum, why ECDSA might fall even faster than expected, hence the 'fresh address' recommendation) So far mo…”
Vitalik Buterin Warns AI Poses Cryptography Risks, Favors Hash-Based Security →
- September 27, 2026 · on X
“The cryptographic world computer: My attempt to express in somewhat concise terms the true meaning of basically everything planned to happen to Ethereum starting from the fork after Hegota. It's really not just a blockchain anymore. It's a hybrid architecture that combines together blockchains and modern cryptography, to enable much more powerful properties. FOCIL, EIP-8288, Lean consensus, state management, formal verification, advanced mempool improvements (including privacy), and the longer-term specter of ob…”
Vitalik Buterin Outlines Ethereum's Transformation into 'Cryptographic World Computer' →
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