BlockBeats news, March 28, according to Coindesk, Fidelity Digital Assets pointed out in a research report on Thursday that since the Ethereum Shapella upgrade in April last year, the number of validators on the blockchain has increased rapidly, triggering people’s Concerns about technical capabilities and centralization. The report shows that as the risk brought by increased liquidity decreases and the number of active validators increases by 74%, future roadmap upgrades will become more difficult.

Analyst Daniel Gray believes that the larger the block (data), the more computing power required to process and re-execute the transaction. Each new validator adds a further connection to the network, thereby increasing the overall bandwidth required to maintain consensus. The underlying concern is that as bandwidth demands grow, validators that cannot keep pace will be removed from the network, and those removed are more likely to be self-hosted nodes.

If the average household struggles to keep up with the network, the risk of centralization increases over time, as the only surviving hardware may be located in agency-owned data centers. The market needs to pay close attention to the future development of Ethereum to ensure that technological progress and the principle of decentralization complement each other.