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Vitalik Buterin reviews Ethereum’s 2025 progress, highlighting technical gains while urging a stronger focus on decentralization, usability, and scalable infrastructure. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin reflected on Ethereum’s progress during 2025 while addressing priorities for 2026. He recognized strong technical accomplishments at the same time, warning against distraction from Ethereum’s original mission. Ethereum’s 2025 Progress Shows Strong Technical Momentum During 2025, Ethereum implemented a number of measurable technical upgrades across the different layers of its core infrastructure. Gas limits were increased, meaning that more transactions can be included in a block and better throughput can be achieved. At the same time, the number of blobs increased to support cheaper and more efficient rollup data availability. Welcome to 2026! Milady is back. Ethereum did a lot in 2025: gas limits increased, blob count increased, node software quality improved, zkEVMs blasted through their performance milestones, and with zkEVMs and PeerDAS ethereum made its largest step toward being a fundamentally… — vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) January 1, 2026 Meanwhile, the quality of node software improved noticeably by several client implementations. These improvements led to a reduction in the synchronization failures and hardware requirements on node operators all over the world. According to community benchmarks, improved sync times improved network participation and resilience during times of high demand. Related Reading: Ethereum Price Surge to $4K Expected as Long-Term Holders Buy In | Live Bitcoin News  In addition, zkEVM technology was able to achieve major performance milestones throughout the year. Several implementations showed considerable proofs generation speed improvements when compared against 2024 benchmarks. These improvements bolstered Ethereum’s scaling roadmap while maintaining the core decentralization guarantees. Buterin said that zkEVMs and PeerDAS combined represented Ethereum’s greatest structural shift in years. These technologies brought Ethereum a step closer to being fundamentally new and more powerful blockchain system. However, he warned…

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