Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published "The cryptographic world computer," stating that Ethereum is transforming from a traditional blockchain into a hybrid architecture that integrates ledgers, cryptographic privacy and verification, and decentralized off-chain components. He noted in the repost that this is no longer just a blockchain.

The article summarizes the form of 2030 as follows: on-chain primarily stores and verifies proofs, while heavy computation and large-scale execution are moved off-chain, allowing users to independently confirm results with brief proofs and data sampling. Verification shifts from re-downloading and executing blocks to SNARK verification and PeerDAS sampling; consensus moves towards optimized PoS with fewer slots for finality; block construction changes from a single entity to multi-party participation. Authorization methods expand from ordinary signatures to quantum-resistant signatures or zero-knowledge proofs.

He anticipates that the Hegota plan, set to be implemented next year, will likely be the last "traditional" hard fork, with technologies and features still recognizable by developers from 2015. After Hegota, the main line will shift to recursive STARK, automated formal verification, optimized consensus algorithms, and comprehensive quantum resistance. Public discussions suggest that the 2030 slot time will be about 4 to 8 seconds, with finality around 8 to 32 seconds. PeerDAS has entered the mainnet with Fusaka, currently used for sampling blobs, and plans to cover complete block content in the future.

The article emphasizes that decentralized networks no longer only incur costs for security and censorship resistance but can also enhance performance through parallel storage, parallel computing, and privacy protection. The prerequisite is to reduce the cost of generating proofs and safely coordinate parallel workflows; otherwise, scalability and privacy cannot coexist. The foundation aims to achieve quantum resistance for the execution layer, consensus layer, and data layer by December 2029.

In terms of market mechanisms, buyers incorporate the "verification layer" into the valuation of ETH, L2, and staking funds, while sellers still price L1 based on re-executing full nodes. Funds shift from redundant computation to proof generation, sampling bandwidth, and formal verification toolchains. Beneficiaries will be the infrastructure capable of producing proofs and sampling nodes, while the old client paths that must synchronize full states to self-verify will face pressure. The event-driven narrative is about writing the story after Hegota as a generational architectural change, rather than another list of fork features.

Source: Public Information