Vitalik refutes the statement that "the Ethereum research team accepts the idea of centralizing everything."
ChainCatcher news, Vitalik Buterin refuted the statement made by Ethereum team lead Péter Szilágyi regarding "the research team fully accepting the idea that everything centralized as long as it can be verified": "I just attended the EF research workshop last week, and I can confirm this is incorrect. We had various discussions on minimizing centralization, including:
- In-depth analysis of multi-proposers to see if we can completely eliminate the builder role;
- Maximizing the power of inclusion lists (FOCIL);
- Ideas on fork choice depending on the inclusiveness of transactions;
- Analysis of Orbit SSF and ideas on accelerating the deployment of the Orbit mechanism, which could reduce the minimum deposit size by more than 10 times before we conduct SSF;
- Distributed block building for PeerDAS;
- Networking analysis and bandwidth optimization for PeerDAS and fullDAS;
- Making recovery from 51% attacks more partially automated, reducing reliance on the 'social layer';
- Ensuring inclusion lists are fully applicable to (i) blobs and (ii) native account abstraction (e.g., EIP-7560) transactions."
Previously, Ethereum team lead Péter Szilágyi expressed concerns on social media about the direction of Ethereum's development, with his views involving the Ethereum PeerDAS proposal, which suggests increasing the Ethereum blob size to 32 MB. Szilágyi believes that the PeerDAS upgrade will hinder home stakers (typically those with simpler computational setups) from participating in the Ethereum network, which goes against the spirit of decentralization.
