🔥 $ETH transitions to local nodes: Vitalik Buterin proposes a new approach to scaling

🧠 Instead of relying on centralized RPC services, the network will bet on local nodes with partial state — lightweight clients that store only the part of the data that is actually needed by the user.

📍 At the core:

• EIP-4444: storing history for ~36 days

• ZK-EVM or Stateless proofs — for verification

• Dynamic on-chain storage: the node chooses what to keep

• Rising costs of storage, simplification of execution

💡 What this brings:

— Reduced dependence on Infura and Alchemy

— Improved user privacy

— Real return to node decentralization

— The ability for anyone to run their own Ethereum without a mega server

📈 Potential: $ETH becomes not just more scalable, but more resistant to censorship and regulation. This is a new generation of Web3 infrastructure.