According to Odaily, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has responded to comments made by Ethereum team lead Péter Szilágyi regarding the direction of Ethereum's research team. Szilágyi had expressed concerns that the research team was embracing centralization as long as it could be verified. Buterin countered these claims, stating that he recently attended the EF research seminar and could confirm that the team is actively discussing ways to minimize centralization.
Buterin highlighted several areas of focus during the seminar, including an in-depth analysis of multi-proposers to potentially eliminate the builder role, maximizing the power of inclusion lists (FOCIL), and ideas on fork choice based on transaction inclusivity. Additionally, the team analyzed Orbit SSF and considered accelerating the deployment of the Orbit mechanism, which could significantly reduce the minimum deposit size before SSF implementation. Other topics included distributed block building for PeerDAS, network analysis and bandwidth optimization for PeerDAS and fullDAS, semi-automating recovery from 51% attacks to reduce reliance on the 'social layer,' and ensuring inclusion lists are fully applicable to blobs and native account abstraction transactions like EIP-7560.
Earlier, Szilágyi had voiced his concerns on social media about the Ethereum PeerDAS proposal, which suggests increasing the Ethereum blob size to 32 MB. He argued that this upgrade would hinder home stakers, who typically have simpler computational setups, from participating in the Ethereum network, thus contradicting the spirit of decentralization. Szilágyi stated on X that Ethereum researchers are 'killing' home stakers in front of everyone, which was not what he expected when he joined Ethereum. He expressed his willingness to prove otherwise but felt that Ethereum was losing its mainline, with the research team seemingly accepting centralization as long as it could be verified. He described this as a joke, emphasizing decentralized verification but centralized control.
