The co-creator of Ethereum stated that next year’s scheduled Hegota upgrade will probably serve as the network’s final ‘traditional’ fork ahead of the implementation of recursive STARKs, automated formal verification, and quantum resistance.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published an essay on Sunday detailing how the architecture of Ethereum (ETH) will transform by the year 2030, characterizing a system that merges traditional blockchain frameworks with advanced cryptographic techniques.
“It’s really not just a blockchain anymore,” Buterin remarked in Originally published at https://www.theblock.co/news/ecosystems/2026-09-27-its-really-not-just-a-blockchain-anymore-vitalik-buterin-maps-ethereums-path-to-2030-416953.