Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin posted on the social platform Warpcast yesterday, publicly sharing for the first time his 'personal' focus for 2025, which spans Ethereum's technological development, security and privacy protection, as well as broader decentralized social infrastructure. He also pointed out that while he participates less in some areas, other core developers are already taking the lead.
Vitalik explicitly stated in the article that Ethereum will remain his top priority this year, especially the long-term roadmap for the core protocol layer (Layer 1), including single-slot finality, long-term VM evolution, statelessness, and how to enhance scalability while maintaining the network's security, resilience, and decentralization.
In addition, Vitalik emphasizes that 'full-stack security and privacy design' will be another focus of his efforts. He believes that Ethereum's usability should not be limited to on-chain infrastructure but should extend to the application layer and client-side, such as decentralized applications (DApps) and wallet tools, achieving a higher degree of open-sourcing and privacy protection at these levels to avoid reliance on centralized intermediaries.
Beyond blockchain, Vitalik continues to promote the 'decentralized acceleration (d/acc)' concept he has advocated for in recent years. According to his extended explanation on his personal website, this includes communication protocols, information layers, governance mechanism design, and institutional innovations for public goods and open-source funding. At the same time, he also pays attention to fields such as cryptography, operating systems, hardware, physical infrastructure, and even biological defense, trying to extend decentralized thinking to off-chain social infrastructure.
However, Vitalik also admitted that he currently participates relatively less in some important directions, naming several core developers in the Ethereum community who are actively leading these efforts. For instance, Paradigm general partner gakonst, Ethereum researcher Dankrad Feist, and Ethereum developer Ansgar are promoting short-term scaling strategies, including increasing Layer 1's gas limit tenfold before 2026; meanwhile, Wang Xiaowei and Tomasz Stańczak are focusing on the organizational governance and coordination work of the Ethereum Foundation. In addition, for mature application categories such as DeFi, payments, and savings, Vitalik mentioned that he currently tends to let more specialized teams take the lead on progress.
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