Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum’s co-founder, has released a new proposal pushing the use of stateless nodes to scale the Ethereum Layer 1 (L1) network without sacrificing decentralization or user privacy. The new approach is to ease the burden of full node operation and promote trustless access to data and improved censorship resistance. Vitalik Buterin Proposes Changes to Ethereum Nodes Vitalik’s proposal is focused on solving the problems of the limitations full especially as the L1 gas limit increases. While ZK-EVMs offer scalable verification, Buterin argues that local nodes remain essential for private, uncensored blockchain interaction. Stateless nodes could ease resource demands on Ethereum by validating blocks without keeping full Merkle branches. Instead, they would hold only parts of the blockchain data relevant to each user. This setup strikes a middle ground and offers more security than light clients but uses fewer resources than full nodes. Short-Term Fixes: EIP-4444 and Historical Data… Read More at Coingape.com
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