Vitalik: Ethereum network should respond to 51% attacks in a more automated way
ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said in a keynote speech at the ETHCC in Brussels that in the case of a 51% attack on the Ethereum network, malicious actors (or multiple working together) generate more Ethereum blocks than honest actors. He believes that one of the biggest concerns is that this may lead to network censorship. He said, "We want to automate the response to 51% attacks as much as possible. So if you are a validator, your node should run software, and if it detects that a transaction is being censored, or some validators are being censored, or it is being censored-it will automatically counter-censor the majority chain, and all honest nodes will automatically coordinate on the same minority software because of the code they are running." Buterin also advocated increasing the adoption of light clients in the Ethereum infrastructure layer, especially wallets. He said they should also support the verification of zk-EVM to provide further support for the second layer network. In addition, he also believes that the protocol should be further simplified to make the work of developers and users easier.