Vitalik Buterin declares 2026 the year Ethereum reverses centralization drift, outlining sweeping technical shifts to restore self-sovereignty through accessible nodes, privacy infrastructure, and onchain application hosting after a decade of mainstream adoption compromises.
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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has declared 2026 the year Ethereum reclaims lost ground on self-sovereignty and trustlessness, calling for an end to every compromise the network has made in pursuit of mainstream adoption.
In a lengthy post on X on Friday, Buterin outlined sweeping technical and philosophical shifts aimed at reversing a decade of centralization drift across nodes, wallets, applications, and block building.
“2026 is the year that we take back lost ground in terms of self-sovereignty and trustlessness,” Buterin wrote.
The manifesto indicates Ethereum’s sharpest pivot yet away from convenience-driven design choices that diluted core values, framing the moment as existential for the network’s long-term legitimacy and expanded role in global infrastructure.
Technical Roadmap Targets Node Accessibility and Privacy Infrastructure.
Buterin’s plan centers on making full node operation practical again through zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machines and Block Access Limits, reversing years of rising hardware requirements that pushed verification off personal computers.
“Full nodes: thanks to ZK-EVM and BAL, it will once again become easier to locally run a node and verify the Ethereum chain on your own computer,” he stated.
The roadmap also prioritizes Helios to “actually verify the data you’re receiving from RPCs instead of blindly trusting it,” alongside oblivious RAM and private information retrieval protocols enabling users to “ask for data from RPCs without revealing which data you’re asking, so you can access dapps without your access patterns being sold off to dozens of third parties all around the world.“
Social recovery wallets with timelocks will provide “wallets that don’t make you lose all your money if you misplace your seedphrase, or if an online or offline attacker extracts your seedphrase, and also don’t make all your money backdoored by Google.”
Privacy features will integrate directly into wallet interfaces to “make private payments from your wallet, with the same user experience as making public payments.“
Application interfaces will shift toward onchain hosting via IPFS to avoid “relying on trusted servers that would lock you our of practical recovery of your assets if they went offline, and would give you a hijacked UI that steals your funds if they get hacked for even a millisecond.”
Buterin warned that “over the last ten years we have seen serious...
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