Vitalik Buterin Calls For Community Discussion On Ethereum Decentralization Goals And Gas Limit Strategy

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Vitalik Buterin calls for a community discussion to define Ethereum's decentralization goals amid proposals to raise the gas limit and leverage modern infrastructure.

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Alisa Davidson

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April 30, 2025

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https://mpost.io/vitalik-buterin-calls-for-community-discussion-on-ethereum-decentralization-goals-and-gas-limit-strategy/?_nocache=1746023104957

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Vitalik initiates EIP on decentralization goals and L1 gas limits

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Vitalik Buterin proposed that before setting technical limits for Ethereum, it’s important to first define the purpose those limits are intended to serve. Some of the potential objectives include ensuring that fixed costs remain low enough to support a competitive and inclusive validator market, and that energy consumption stays within a range—approximately 15 kW—that makes it feasible to operate nodes from a residential setting. This would reduce dependence on large data centers, which pose censorship risks due to their centralized nature.

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Importantly, FOCIL is placed in the medium category, as it requires widespread honest participation to support timely inclusion, even if its trust assumption doesn’t align precisely with n/2-of-n.

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