Vitalik's New Year Message: Ethereum Will Continue to Uphold Its Core Mission of Being the "Open Internet Core Infrastructure" to Build Decentralized Applications

BlockBeats News, January 1st, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin posted a New Year's message on social media, stating:

「Ethereum has made great achievements in 2025: Gas limit increase, Blob quantity growth, node software quality improvement, zkEVM performance milestone breakthrough. With the advancement of zkEVM and PeerDAS, Ethereum has taken the biggest step towards becoming a new and more powerful blockchain form.

However, Ethereum still faces challenges: more effort is needed to achieve its established goals. This is not about chasing the 'next round of narrative hype'—whether it's tokenizing the dollar or political meme coins—nor is it about persuading people to help fill block space to reshape ETH's deflationary properties. Instead, it is about practicing its core mission—building the world's computer as the core infrastructure of a free and open internet.

Vitalik emphasized that Ethereum is building decentralized applications. These applications can operate without fraud, censorship, or third-party intervention. They undergo 'off-chain tests': even if the original developers disappear, the system continues to operate. As a user, you may not even notice if Cloudflare goes down; their stability transcends corporate rise and fall, ideological changes, and party turnovers. At the same time, they safeguard user privacy. All of this will support the financial system and extend to identity authentication, governance mechanisms, and other infrastructure needed by human civilization.

To achieve this vision, two major conditions must be met: (1) scalable usability; (2) true decentralization. This needs to be advanced simultaneously on two levels: blockchain infrastructure—including software running and accessing the blockchain; and the application layer, all of which are in urgent need of improvement—they are already improving, but must evolve faster.

Fortunately, Ethereum developers have powerful tools at their disposal, and now it is necessary to fully utilize them, which will surely be achieved.」