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Key Takeaways Buterin says Ethereum’s future involves dividing work and checking proofs instead of repeating every calculation. Ethereum’s 2030 vision sketches finality of eight to 32 seconds, but that’s a future design. Buterin sees Hegota, planned for 2027, as likely Ethereum’s last fork built around familiar technology. Ethereum Starts Outgrowing Its Original Label Ethereum spent years pursuing a seemingly awkward ambition, spread computing across a decentralized network, then make that arrangement efficient. Now, co-founder Vitalik Buterin says modern cryptography is changing the arithmetic, allowing participants to divide work without everyone repeating every calculation. In a Sept. 27 essay and accompanying X post, he describes a network moving beyond its familiar blockchain identity. “It’s really not just a blockchain anymore,” he wrote on X. Wait, what? The ledger stays, but more verification, privacy and processing would depend on cryptographic tools and decentralized infrastructure working around it. Split the Work, Then Check the Proof The old arrangement was straightforward, if laborious. Ethereum network participants downloaded blocks and repeated their calculations to check that everything followed the rules. Buterin’s future architecture increasingly substitutes cryptographic proofs and samples of the underlying data for that full replay. Think of checking evidence that a calculation was performed correctly instead of doing the entire calculation again. That changes the economics of splitting tasks among participants who don’t automatically trust one another. Earlier efforts ran into trouble because assigning work was easier than reliably checking it. Committees introduced expense, delays and their own failure risks. “Back then, this was not viable for one primary reason: the missing ingredient was verification,” Buterin wrote. His argument is that modern cryptography supplies that ingredient. Decentralization could consequently help the network store more data and process more work simultaneously, giving an old Ethereum ambition another shot. Developers Get a Different Bill Buterin…