Vitalik Buterin sets sights on ‘multidimensional’ Ethereum gas with focus on The Splurge

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin has added more to the section of the Ethereum roadmap called “The Splurge,” aiming to advance the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) toward a stable, high-performance “endgame state.” According to the Oct. 29 technical blog post, this vision also included significant improvements in Ethereum’s user experience, security, transaction fee structure, and cryptographic…

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Vitalik Buterin’s ‘Surge’ plan aims for exponential Ethereum growth with 100,000 TPS

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has outlined his vision for the next phase of the network’s evolution, known as “The Surge.” In an Oct. 17 blog post, Buterin shared critical objectives for this phase, aiming to achieve over 100,000 transactions per second (TPS) across Ethereum’s mainnet and layer-2 solutions. He also emphasized the importance of improving…

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Ethereum co-founder Buterin swaps memecoins for charity, urges creators to donate directly

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin recently converted a significant portion of his memecoin holdings to ETH for charitable donations. In an Oct. 7 post on X, Buterin revealed that he sold 10 billion Moodeng tokens to fund anti-airborne-disease technologies. On-chain analysis platform Lookonchain confirmed the statement, noting that Buterin sold the Moddeng tokens for 308.69 ETH…

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Vitalik Buterin defends Polymarket’s controversial Hezbollah prediction markets

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has defended the inclusion of a Hezbollah betting section on Polymarket, a decentralized prediction platform. In an Oct. 1 post on X, Buterin pointed out that many individuals, including elites, make harmful and inaccurate predictions about conflicts on platforms like Twitter. He argued that knowing whether people with a financial stake believe…

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