Vitalik Buterin maps Ethereum's path to 2030

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin outlined how he expects the network's architecture to change by 2030. He described Hegotá, planned for next year, as likely to be Ethereum's last conventional fork before upgrades rely more heavily on recursive proofs, automated verification and post-quantum cryptography.

Under the longer-term design, nodes would use PeerDAS to sample data and verify succinct proofs instead of downloading and re-executing every block. Signatures could be aggregated offchain, reducing the amount of work every validator has to repeat.

The roadmap is a direction rather than a committed release schedule. Its common thread is moving more verification into compact cryptographic proofs so individual nodes can check the chain without reproducing every step that produced it.