“It’s actually killing the home staker, which is not what I expected when I joined Ethereum.”

Péter Szilágyi criticized that Ethereum is going astray and that the research team has completely accepted all centralized ideas as long as they can be verified. On the surface, it is decentralized verification, but in essence it is centralized control. His strong words have attracted widespread attention in the Ethereum community and sparked a heated debate about the core principles of the Ethereum network.

V God clarifies 8 major points

After Péter Szilágyi’s remarks sparked discussion, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin also responded to his accusations through a series of tweets on the 27th, flatly denying any intention to centralize the Ethereum network and emphasizing that the Ethereum team has been deeply involved in discussions aimed at minimizing centralization, rather than promoting centralization.

Vitalik Buterin highlighted several key initiatives and discussions within the Ethereum research community aimed at ensuring the network remains decentralized, including:

Multi-proposer deep dive: The team has been exploring the potential of a multi-proposer system to more evenly distribute proposal power.

Elimination of the Builder Role: Discussions are ongoing to eliminate the Builder role to reduce the number of central control points within the network.

Fork choice optimization: Ideas have been exchanged on making fork choice dependent on transaction inclusion, which could help increase decentralization of the block validation process.

Orbit Single Slot Finality (SSF): Research is underway to accelerate the deployment of the Orbit mechanism, which aims to significantly reduce the minimum validator deposit size and achieve single-slot finality, where blocks can be proposed and finalized within the same slot, an innovation that can greatly improve Ethereum efficiency and reduce centralization risks.

· PeerDAS distributed block construction: The Ethereum team is also exploring PeerDAS distributed block construction technology, which aims to distribute control of block construction more widely.

· Network analysis and bandwidth optimization: Efforts are underway to optimize the network and bandwidth requirements of PeerDAS and fullDAS to ensure that the network can scale without centralized control.

Recovery from 51% attacks: The team is working on partially automated recovery from 51% attacks to reduce reliance on the social layer to maintain network resilience without centralized oversight.

Inclusion Lists for blobs and transactions: Ensure inclusion lists fully apply to blobs and native account abstraction transactions, such as proposed in EIP-7560, to maintain transparency and decentralization.

One of the main points of Vitalik Buterin's rebuttal focused on the concept of single-slot finality (SSF). Currently, it takes about 15 minutes for an Ethereum block to be finalized, but through SSF, blocks can be proposed and finalized in the same time slot, thereby significantly shortening the finalization time and improving the overall efficiency of the network.

Overall, SSF is still in the research stage, but its successful implementation is expected to take Ethereum another leap forward, ensuring faster transactions and reducing centralization risks by minimizing the control of any single entity over block finalization.

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