Vitalik Buterin addressed three big issues risking Ethereum's decentralization: MEV, liquid staking, and node costs.
📢 He backed Peter Szilágyi's concerns and highlighted two MEV strategies: "minimization" (e.g., CowSwap) and "quarantine," noting the latter may centralize risks.
📝 Buterin noted individual staking is unpopular due to high entry costs (32 ETH) and hefty hardware demands (4 TB). He suggested lowering deposit sizes and withdrawal times to make staking more accessible.
✔️ To ease node requirements, he advocated for Verkle trees and EIP-4444. In his opinion, future progress might come from ZK-EVM, eliminating computations with proofs only.
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