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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published "The cryptographic world computer" on Saturday, setting out what he sees as the network's next decade.
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Buterin argues the network is already a hybrid
Buterin argues the network is already a hybrid of blockchain and modern cryptography, and is called a blockchain for "historical reasons." Users would get finality in 8 to 32 seconds, against roughly 200 seconds for 12 confirmations today.
Ethereum's next upgrade will be the last one
Ethereum's next upgrade will be the last one anyone from 2015 would recognize, its co-founder Vitalik Buterin wrote in a post published on Saturday.
Hegota, the fork scheduled for next year, is
Hegota, the fork scheduled for next year, is "likely to be Ethereum's last 'normal' fork," he said. What follows involves recursive STARKs, automated formal verification, heavily optimized consensus and making the lot quantum-safe.
The cryptographic world computer:https://t.co/ueayODeUPo My attempt to express
The cryptographic world computer:https://t.co/ueayODeUPo 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… — vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) September 27, 2026 The cryptographic world computer:https://t.co/ueayODeUPo
My attempt to express in somewhat concise terms
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… — vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) September 27, 2026 A post-Lean Ethereum is called a blockchain "to a large extent for historical reasons," Buterin wrote.
In reality, he argued, it is a "hybrid
In reality, he argued, it is a "hybrid construction" merging Satoshi Nakamoto's ideas with cryptographic machinery that came out of 50 years of academic work and "did not even exist" in 2009. That architecture, he tweeted, will "enable much more powerful properties" than blockchain alone. Verification, consensus, and block construction
Three core properties are being replaced outright. Verification
Three core properties are being replaced outright. Verification moves from downloading and re-executing every block to sampling data with PeerDAS and checking a SNARK. Consensus moves to a "much better optimized" proof of stake model. And block construction moves from one miner deciding what goes in, to multiple parties building it together.
Finality would arrive in 8 to 32 seconds
Finality would arrive in 8 to 32 seconds against roughly 200 seconds for 12 confirmations today, slots would run 4 to 8 seconds, and running a node would demand far less hardware. Censorship resistance would come from FOCIL, a scheme in which a committee of validators each publishes a list of pending transactions the next block must contain, enforced by the fork-choice rule so that blocks omitting them are ignored. Buterin described the result as "guaranteed real-time transaction inclusion."
Privacy arrives in pieces, with general-purpose computation remaining
Privacy arrives in pieces, with general-purpose computation remaining expensive and only partly private, while special-purpose applications get "very strong privacy" from zero-knowledge proofs and private account abstraction. Onion routing and mixnets would cover the network layer, work the Ethereum Foundation resourced with a dedicated privacy cluster launched last October.
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Vitalik Buterin Outlines 'Cryptographic World Computer' Plan for Ethereum - Decrypt
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published "The cryptographic world computer" on Saturday, setting out what he sees as the network's next decade.
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