According to Cointelegraph, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has proposed a solution to maintain trustless, censorship-resistant access to Ethereum as the network scales. On May 19, Buterin shared an article outlining how to make Ethereum's layer-1 scaling more user-friendly for those running local nodes. Buterin emphasized the importance of independent users running nodes, stating that a market dominated by a few RPC providers poses censorship risks. RPC providers allow wallets, users, and applications to interact with the blockchain without running their own nodes. Buterin believes this setup carries risks. He proposed the use of 'partial state nodes,' which help users maintain privacy-preserving access to blockchain data without needing to run a full node. As Ethereum scales and gas limits increase, running a full node requires more storage and bandwidth. Partial state nodes address this issue by allowing users to verify the blockchain and provide local data while only storing a subset of Ethereum state that users require. Users can configure nodes to save only the data related to their accounts, DeFi applications, and commonly used tokens. Other data will be excluded, and queries beyond the storage subset will fail or be routed through RPC solutions.

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