Buterin Says Ethereum’s Future May Run on Proofs

In the latest Ethereum news, Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum co-founder, said on Sunday 27 September that Hegotá, the protocol upgrade planned after Glamsterdam and generally expected in 2027, is likely to be the network’s last “normal” fork. The last one whose underlying technology would still look familiar to someone working on Ethereum in 2015. This is not simply a claim that Ethereum will stop shipping hard forks. It is a forecast that the character of those forks is about to change, from bundles of recognizable features toward infrastructure built around cryptographic proofs, formal verification and quantum resistance. Ethereum 2030 Sign Up With Binance To Unlock 0% Trading Fees This BullrunEthereum News: A Verification Problem Buterin Wants Proofs to Solve The claim matters because it reframes how Ethereum scales. Today, a computer fully checking the network repeats the calculations behind every transaction: confirming a sender had sufficient funds, confirming an application executed according to its rules. Adding more computers to the network does not automatically expand its capacity, because each new computer still checks much of the same activity as the ones before it. Buterin’...