{"id":129518,"date":"2025-05-19T08:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T08:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=129518"},"modified":"2025-05-19T08:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T08:20:11","slug":"vitalik-buterin-proposes-partially-stateless-nodes-for-ethereum-scaling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=129518","title":{"rendered":"Vitalik Buterin proposes partially stateless nodes for Ethereum scaling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsEthereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin unveiled a proposal to preserve trustless, censorship-resistant access to Ethereum, even as the network scales.\u00a0<br \/>\nOn May 19, Buterin shared a post outlining how to make Ethereum&#8217;s layer-1 scaling \u201cmore friendly\u201d to users running local nodes for personal use. The Ethereum co-founder highlighted the importance of independent users running nodes, saying that a market dominated by a few Remote Procedure Call (RPC) providers risks censorship.\u00a0<br \/>\nRPC providers let wallets, users and apps interact with the blockchain without running their own nodes. Crypto wallets are usually connected to an RPC provider behind the scenes. Buterin believes there are risks to this setup.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cA market structure dominated by a few RPC providers is one that will face strong pressure to deplatform or censor users. Many RPC providers already exclude entire countries,\u201d Buterin wrote.\u00a0<br \/>\nSource: Vitalik ButerinVitalik Buterin proposes partially stateless nodes\u00a0<br \/>\nIn addition to censorship, Buterin argued that reasons like expensive fully-trustless cryptographic solutions and metadata privacy show that there\u2019s value in ensuring greater ease for those running a personal node.\u00a0<br \/>\nIn the proposal, Buterin&#8217;s solution relies on a novel type of node called \u201cpartially stateless nodes.\u201d These nodes are designed to help users maintain privacy-preserving access to blockchain data without the heavy resource demands of running a full node.\u00a0<br \/>\nAs Ethereum scales and the gas limit increases, running a full node requires more storage and bandwidth. Buterin said partially stateless nodes address the issue by allowing users to verify the blockchain and serve local data, but only store a subset of the Ethereum state, based on the user\u2019s needs.<br \/>\nVitalik Buterin\u2019s graphic of partially stateless nodes. Source: Vitalik ButerinRelated: Ethereum Foundation unveils security initiative to supplant legacy systems<br \/>\nA new node type to validate blocks \u201cstatelessly\u201d<br \/>\nThe nodes would operate by validating blocks statelessly. This means they don&#8217;t require the storage of the full Merkle proofs or the entire blockchain history. They can selectively keep certain parts of the state up to date.\u00a0<br \/>\nThis means that users could configure their nodes only to save data related to their accounts, the decentralized finance (DeFi) applications, and their commonly used tokens like stablecoins and Ether (ETH).\u00a0<br \/>\nThe rest of the data will be left out, and queries beyond the stored subset will fail or be routed through an RPC solution.\u00a0<br \/>\nMagazine: Danger signs for Bitcoin as retail abandons it to institutions: Sky Wee<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/vitalik-buterin-partially-stateless-nodes-ethereum-scaling-privacy?utm_source=rss_feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsEthereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin unveiled a proposal to preserve trustless, censorship-resistant access to Ethereum, even as the network scales.\u00a0 On May 19, Buterin shared a post outlining how&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129518"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}