Vitalik Buterin: In 2026, Ethereum will no longer compromise and will reshape its ecosystem and "regain lost ground" through ZK-EVM, privacy upgrades, and other measures.

Jinse Finance reported that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated on the X platform that Ethereum has experienced significant setbacks in many areas over the past decade, and 2026 will be a year of regaining lost ground. This means Ethereum will make it easier to run full nodes through ZK-EVM and BAL, verify RPC data via Helios instead of blindly trusting, request data without compromising privacy using ORAM and PIR technologies, enhance security by promoting social recovery wallets and time locks, improve the user experience of private payments through wallet privacy payments, achieve privacy and censorship resistance with technologies such as ERC-4337, and enable more on-chain UI DApps using IPFS. Vitalik Buterin stated that there will be no more compromises in 2026, and Ethereum deserves a greater ecosystem.