According to Cointelegraph, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin proposed a suggestion 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 needing to run their own nodes. Buterin sees risks in this setup. He proposed the use of 'partial stateless nodes', which help users maintain privacy-protecting 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 stateless nodes address this issue by allowing users to verify the blockchain and provide local data while only storing the subset of Ethereum state that the user needs. Users can configure nodes to store only the data related to their accounts, DeFi applications, and commonly used tokens. Other data will be excluded, and queries exceeding the stored subset will fail or be routed via RPC solutions.

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