Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of the Ethereum (ETH) network, has announced a major blockchain breakthrough. Buterin has led the ETH community in celebrating the breakthrough of solving the blockchain trilemma.
The veteran web3 developer stated that the Ethereum network solved the blockchain trilemma in the past decade. Buterin has advocated for blockchains to build aggressively towards achieving optimal decentralization, security, and scalability.
With the notable developments of the zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs since 2020, Buterin stated that Ethereum has achieved the holy grail to catalyze mainstream crypto adoption. Buterin also commended the notable developments of the PeerDAS (Peer Data Availability Sampling), which was introduced via EIP-7594 and activated on the mainnet via the Fusaka Hard Fork in December 2025.
As such, Buterin stated that the Ethereum network has overtaken other top chains led by Bitcoin (BTC). Furthermore, the Bitcoin chain has not achieved the blockchain trilemma since it is highly decentralized, has global consensus, but low bandwidth.
With the Ethereum network having achieved the blockchain trilemma in the past 10 years, Buterin stated that the next four years will entail its global rollout. Furthermore, the Ethereum network has been at the forefront of catalyzing the mainstream adoption of regulated digital assets and Web3 protocols.
In 2026, Buterin expects large non-zkEVM-dependent gas limits to increase due to Block-Level Access Lists (BALs) and enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation (ePBS). The Ethereum community expects both BALs and ePBS to pave the way for greater scalability while maintaining the network’s decentralization and security.
As such, Buterin believes that the Ethereum chain will see the first opportunities to run a ZKEVM node in 2026.
Between 2026 and 2028, Buterin expects the Ethereum community to expedite gas repricing, changes to the state structure, and the execution payload going into blobs. The expected changes will help make Ethereum’s higher gas limits safe.
In 2027-30, Buterin expects more network developments to further gas limit increases. Moreover, he believes that ZKEVM will become a primary means of blockchain validation before 2030.
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});The Ethereum ecosystem is well poised to attract more organic users after achieving the much-coveted blockchain trilemma. As such, the large-cap altcoin, with a fully diluted valuation of about $379 billion at press time, will lead more chains in building in a similar fashion to remain competitive.
Furthermore, institutions such as banks have led the adoption of the Ethereum network due to its data protection, scalability, and decentralization.
