Vitalik: zkEVM and PeerDAS will make Ethereum a decentralized, high-bandwidth consensus network

Foresight News reported that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin tweeted that zkEVM and the already launched PeerDAS will enable Ethereum to become a decentralized, high-bandwidth consensus network. He stated that BitTorrent has massive total bandwidth and is highly decentralized, but lacks a consensus mechanism; Bitcoin is highly decentralized and has a consensus mechanism, but its bandwidth is relatively low because it is not truly "distributed" but rather "replicated." Vitalik noted that PeerDAS is already live, and zkEVM has achieved practical performance and is currently addressing security issues.

Based on this, Vitalik provided a rough timeline for the future development of Ethereum's foundational stack: In 2026, due to the introduction of BAL and ePBS, the gas limit not reliant on zkEVM will be significantly increased, and Ethereum will, for the first time, offer the opportunity to run zkEVM nodes; from 2026 to 2028, gas prices will be readjusted, the state structure will change, and execution payloads will be placed into blobs to ensure safe operation under higher gas limits; from 2027 to 2030, as zkEVM becomes the primary method for block verification on the network, the gas limit will be further substantially increased. Additionally, an ideal long-term goal for Ethereum is to achieve distributed block construction.