Vitalik Buterin emphasized that Ethereum must define which user guarantees the network aims to preserve and which tradeoffs it will not accept

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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin initiated a conversation on the Ethereum Magicians forum titled “Formalizing decentralization goals in the context of larger L1 gas limits and 2020s-era tech.” In the post, he emphasized the importance of explicitly defining Ethereum’s decentralization goals—specifically, identifying which user guarantees the network aims to preserve and which compromises it is not willing to make.

However, if we start going in this direction, we need to be very clear about what our underlying goals in terms of decentralization are: what properties are we trying to give to users, and what red lines are we not willing to cross?