Ethereum Post-Hegotá: Vitalik Buterin Lays Out 2030 Roadmap

Buterin expects Hegotá to be the last ordinary fork. After it comes recursive STARKs, automated formal verification and quantum-safe design. One of the co-founders of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, has outlined how Ethereum could change after the Hegota fork, arguing that the network is moving toward a “cryptographic world computer” rather than remaining a conventional blockchain. His roadmap would change how Ethereum verifies transactions, handles computation, and uses its decentralized network, with zero-knowledge proofs taking a much larger role by 2030. What Changes After Hegotá Buterin started by comparing Ethereum’s future with the way early blockchains worked. In Bitcoin’s original model, every participant downloaded a block, checked it, and re-executed its transactions, and Ethereum still works broadly along those lines, but the developer sees that changing as the network adopts more advanced cryptography. By 2030, he expects verification to move toward PeerDAS, where participants can check samples of the data, combined with SNARKs, which let the network verify that a large amount of computation was done correctly without repeating all of it. The same shift is already visible i...