Vitalik Buterin advocates for a more automated approach to 51% attacks
On July 10, The Block reported that Vitalik Buterin advocated at the ETHCC conference in Brussels that the Ethereum network should be prepared for hypothetical censorship under a 51% attack. Buterin believes that if malicious actors produce more blocks than honest actors, it may lead to network censorship, and honest validators should move to the fork of the chain. He proposed that the current response plan that relies on social consensus should be more automated and planned in advance.
In addition, Buterin also made other suggestions for Ethereum, including increasing the adoption of light clients at the infrastructure level, especially supporting the verification of zk-EVMs, and providing further support for the second-layer network. He also discussed the issue of quantum resistance, believing that this is an unresolved issue for the Ethereum blockchain, and promoted further simplification of the protocol to bring convenience to developers and users.