Vitalik的以太坊简化计划：从“功能主义”到“极简主义”

以太坊联合创始人Vitalik Buterin在2025年提出了一个破坏性的长期计划，以将以太坊的核心方案简化为接近比特币的级别。

In 2025, Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, proposed a surprising long-term plan to simplify the core protocol of Ethereum to a level close to Bitcoin's. This plan, spanning five years, aims to enhance resilience and decentralization by reducing protocol complexity, diverging from the current path of endless additions and expansions.

在2025年，以太坊联合创始人Vitalik Buterin提出了一个令人惊讶的长期计划，将以太坊的核心方案简化为接近比特币的水平。该计划跨越了五年，旨在通过降低协议复杂性来增强韧性和分散性，这与当前无休止的添加和扩展路径不同。

The core of this plan is to return to the essence of "minimalism" and ruthlessly eliminate anything that deviates from this principle. This includes streamlining the core protocol, reducing the scope of protocol developers, and focusing on building decentralized applications (DApps) on the upper layer.

该计划的核心是重返“极简主义”的本质，并无情地消除了任何偏离该原则的东西。这包括简化核心协议，降低协议开发人员的范围，并专注于在上层上构建分散应用程序（DAPP）。

This plan is a response to the three major crises that Ethereum's ecosystem has encountered in the past year.

该计划是对以太坊生态系统在过去一年中遇到的三个重大危机的回应。

1. Game of Thrones: Where is the promised decentralization?

1。《权力的游戏：承诺的权力下放》在哪里？

The core controllers of the top Layer2 (like Arbitrum) are still in the hands of the development team, and users are worried about the "restoration of centralization."

Top Layer2（如仲裁）的核心控制器仍掌握在开发团队手中，用户担心“恢复集中化”。

2. External strong enemies siege

2。外部强敌人围困

Solana attracts users with "second-level transactions," while TON grows wildly with Telegram's 900 million users. Ethereum's Layer2s are caught in homogeneous competition: issuing points and airdrops, but their functions are similar.

Solana通过“二级交易”吸引了用户，而Te Telegram的9亿用户则疯狂地增长。以太坊的第2层陷入了均匀的竞争中：发行要点和空投，但它们的功能相似。

3. Developers complain

3。开发人员抱怨

“Now making DApp is like opening a chain store - every Layer2 has to be renovated, the cost is too high!”

“现在制作Dapp就像开设一家连锁店一样 - 每个Layer2都必须翻新，成本太高了！”

After the SEC approved Ethereum ETF in May, it officially began trading in July, quickly attracting $9 billion in the first week.

SEC在5月批准Ethereum ETF之后，它于7月正式开始交易，在第一周很快吸引了90亿美元。

However, institutional funds may prefer to flow into Layer 2 tokens and AI projects (like the rendering network RNDR), further exacerbating market differentiation.

但是，机构基金可能更喜欢流入第2层令牌和AI项目（例如渲染网络RNDR），进一步加剧市场差异。

Moreover, due to regulations, ETFs cannot be pledged, which is equivalent to buying gold but not being able to deposit it in a bank to earn interest, diminishing its long-term appeal.

此外，由于法规，无法承诺ETF，这等同于购买黄金，但不能将其存入银行以赚取利息，从而减少了其长期上诉。

Switching to the RISC-V architecture will require rewriting smart contracts. Old developers bluntly said: "What's the difference between this and learning a new language?"

切换到RISC-V架构将需要重写智能合约。老开发人员直言不讳地说：“这与学习新语言有什么区别？”

There is also a risk of community division. Some people believe that the existing ZK-Rollup technology is sufficient and there is no need to tamper with it.

也有社区分裂的风险。有些人认为现有的ZK滚动技术已经足够，因此无需篡改它。

The user growth rate cannot keep up with the decline in gas fees, and the money earned by the DA layer (data storage) cannot support the ecosystem.

用户增长率无法跟上汽油费的下降，而DA层（数据存储）赚取的钱不能支持生态系统。

The envisioned "modular application explosion" has yet to be seen. Do you think Vitalik's five-year gamble will pay off?

所设想的“模块化应用爆炸”尚未看到。您认为Vitalik的五年赌博会得到回报吗？