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Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin recently published his views and attitudes on several key issues in the future development of the Ethereum and crypto industry on his blog and social platforms. Bulu said that he has compiled the key points of viewpoints so far from July 2024, so let usLet’s learn more:
Interoperability across Layer2 “It will soon be no longer a problem”
Vitalik Buterin:I think the interoperability problem across L2 “will soon be no longer the problem”, and the entire Ethereum (including Layer1, Rollups, Validium, and even sidechains) will have a smooth user experience, which will surprise people.I saw the enormous energy and willingness to achieve this.
I object to choosing a political allegiance based on who “supports encryption”
Vitalik Buterin:Don’t just support crypto digital assets, support those deep-seated goals and policy impacts.
Over the past few years, “crypto” has become an increasingly important issue in political policy, with various jurisdictions considering bills that regulate various actors engaged in blockchain business in various ways.Most of these bills seem to me to make sense, although there are concerns that the government will take extreme measures, such as treating almost all digital assets as securities or prohibiting self-custodial wallets.
With these concerns, more and more supporters in the crypto field are beginning to become politically active, but their favor for political parties and candidates is almost entirely determined by their willingness to be loose and friendly to “crypto digital assets.”manner.
I object to this trend, especially because I think this way of decision making is very risky and may also go against your original intention and values of entering the crypto digital asset field.
“Encryption” is not just crypto assets and blockchain
Vitalik Buterin:“Encryption” is not just crypto assets and blockchain.In the crypto assets field, people tend to be overly focused on the centrality of “assets” and regard the freedom to hold and consume assets as the most important political issue.
I agree that doing anything important in modern society requires money and assets to drive, and the private consumption rights that Zooko has been relentlessly advocated are equally important.Moreover, asset issuance can greatly improve people’s ability to establish digital organizations, so that they can truly possess the power of collective economy, thereby promoting the development of organizational work.However, the near exclusive focus on crypto assets and blockchain is not the ideology that initially created crypto assets.
Crypto assets originated from the Cypherpunk Movement, a movement that upholds the spirit of techno-liberalism, understanding the importance of decentralization, as Satoshi Nakamoto explained in one of the few public political statements:
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A long-term explanation of the system being susceptible to the monopoly of force.
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You can’t find a solution to the political problem in cryptography.
Crypto assets are just one of several important scenarios for applying decentralized networks.
Vitalik Buterin:Freedom is important, and decentralized networks can protect freedom well. Crypto assets are an important scenario for applying decentralized networks, but they are only one of several important scenarios.
I can think of at least some other technical freedoms that have the same “basic nature” as the freedom to use crypto assets.For example: freedom of communication and privacy, free and privacy-friendly digital identity, high-quality access to information, freedom of thought and privacy, etc.
Freedom of thought and privacy will become increasingly important in the coming decades.Unless there is a significant change, more and more of our ideas will be mediated and read directly by the servers of centralized AI companies.
My basic point is: You join not because of crypto assets, but because of deeper goals.Don’t think about the problem from the standpoint of crypto assets, but from the fundamental goal of encryption and the entire set of policy impacts that are implicitly contained.And the current initiatives that “support crypto assets” have not thought about the problem in this way, at least from the moment.
Crypto-friendly now does not mean crypto-friendly in 5 years
Vitalik Buterin: Internationalism is a social and political cause that I and many of my crypto colleagues have always cherished.
In theory, the Internet does not distinguish between the richest and the poorest, which is an important aspect of Internet liberation.Once we can make basic Internet access standards accessible to most people around the world, we can have a more equal access and global digital society.Crypto digital assets extend these ideals to the realm of economic interaction.This has the potential to greatly promote the flattening of the global economy, and I have personally seen many such cases.
If you see a politician being crypto-friendly, one thing you can do is query their opinion of the crypto-assets themselves 5 years ago.Similarly, find their opinions on topics related to the crypto industry 5 years ago.In particular, try to find topics that are inconsistent with “support freedom” and “support companies”.
If a politician supports crypto digital assets, the key question to ask is: Are they the right reason for doing this?Do they have a vision that is consistent with you for the technological, political and economic development of the 21st century?Do they have a longer-term positive vision besides near worries such as “to defeat other bad tribes”?If there is, that’s great: you should support them and make it clear that’s why you support them.If not, then either stay out of the matter or look for better power to align with it.
Original link
https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/07/17/procrypto.html
How do I think of Circle STARK?
Vitalik Buterin:Circle STARKs don’t bring too much extra complexity to developers compared to regular STARKs.During the implementation process, the above three questions are basically the only difference I see from ordinary FRI.The underlying mathematics behind the “polynomials” run by Circle FRI is very counterintuitive and takes some time to understand and understand.But coincidentally, this complexity is hidden and cannot be seen by developers.The complexity of circular mathematics is encapsulated, not systematic.
Understanding Circle FRI and Circle FFT is also a good entry point for understanding other “exotic FFTs”: the most notable are the binary field FFTs used by Binius and LibSTARK, as well as more bizarre structures such as elliptic curve FFTs, which they use.It is a few-to-one mapping that is well coordinated with the elliptic curve point operation.
Combining Mason 31, BabyBear and binary field technologies (such as Binius), we feel that the efficiency of STARKs’ “base layer” is approaching its limit.At this point, I hope that the cutting edge of STARK optimization can turn to the highest efficiency arithmetic operations on primitives such as hash functions and signatures (and optimize these primitives themselves for this), recursively constructing to achieve more parallelization,Virtual machines perform arithmetic operations to improve the developer experience, as well as other higher-level tasks.
Original link
https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/07/23/circlestarks.html
We do need advanced tools, but we also need to make them easy to understand and use to ensure that more people can work together
Vitalik Buterin:It was in this spirit that I published my own articles in an attempt to get more people to understand advanced topics in cryptography:We do need advanced tools, but we also need to make them easy to understand and use, ensuring that more people can work together and that they can empower people in the future, instead of becoming a series of iPhone interfaces built by a few people, let the rest of us only access them in a standardized way.
Original link
https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/08/03/museumfuture.html
If you want a strong ecosystem, it has to be simple
Vitalik ButerinSpeaking at the Ethereum Community Conference (EthCC 7): If you want a strong ecosystem, it has to be simple, it shouldn’t have these, like 73 random hooks and some kind of backward compatibility.
Ethereum is a “sized and reasonably decentralized fixed pile ecosystem” and is a highly international and knowledgeable community.However, the weaknesses of blockchain still need to be solved, including that it is difficult to perform single-person disk gaze because it requires 32 Ethereum to become a validator of blockchain, and the running nodes are technically complex.
