Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin Proposes Design to Make Running Nodes Easier

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Vitalik Buterin proposed “partially stateless nodes” to let users run lightweight Ethereum nodes by storing only selected data, reducing costs and promoting decentralization.

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Shaurya Malwa

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May 19, 2025

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CoinDesk

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https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2025/05/19/ethereums-vitalik-buterin-proposes-design-to-make-running-nodes-easier

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“This type of node would give the benefits of direct local access to the state that a user needs to care about, as well as maximal full privacy of access to that state,” Buterin wrote.

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Vitalik Buterin has proposed a design for "partially stateless nodes" to reduce the hardware burden of running an Ethereum node.

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