The co-founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, has unveiled a set of ambitious objectives for the next network development phase, coinciding with a new stage in the commitment of the ecosystem.
In an article of April 30, Buterin described the key development areas for 2025, including the purpose of faster transactions, the architecture of the customer without state, improved confidentiality features and stronger decentralization through the battery.
Buterin’s announcement occurs while the Ethereum network has reached a record in active users. Onchain’s data show that more than 15.4 million unique addresses interacted with applications based on Ethereum during last week, including nearly 13.45 million operating on layer 2 solutions.
Among the main priorities of Buterin, there is research on the unique purpose, a change of protocol which would reduce the time necessary to finalize the transactions at only 12 seconds.
He also underlined the need for stateless customers, which would move the burden of the storage of the complete state of Ethereum from network nodes to users, improving scalability and resilience.
Confidentiality remains a central theme in Buterin’s vision. Following its previous publication of a short -term roadmap on Ethereum’s privacy, he reiterated the importance of creating friendly tools that preserve confidentiality without sacrificing transparency or security.
Buterin also pointed out an increasing interest in the wider ecosystem of Ethereum, extending beyond technical upgrades. Its roadmap includes plans to support decentralized infrastructure, encrypted messaging platforms, improved documentation for developers and new open source and governance models.
He also expressed his interest in the construction of systems to facilitate the exchange of confidence information, including prediction markets and other emerging tools for collective coordination.
Although Buterin is not directly involved in all areas of Ethereum development, he noted that the widening of the gas limit and improving peer communication remain important objectives for the larger developer community.
Its renewed research objective follows recent changes to the Ethereum Foundation, which gave it greater freedom to continue innovation in the long term. Co-executive director Tomasz Stéńczak recently noted that Buerin’s involvement often accelerates the breakthroughs within the ecosystem.
