Vitalik Buterin stated on November 8, 2026, that optimizing Ethereum to capture fee burns would mandate interventionist governance, undermining the network's decentralization and capture resistance

The largest smart-contract blockchain and its native asset ETH, covering protocol upgrades, staking, fee economics and institutional adoption.

How Ethereum's roadmap and upgrades get decided, and who holds effective power among client teams, researchers and the Ethereum Foundation.