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According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Vitalik Buterin (0xfEB...03B2) transferred 1 million USDC to his charitable project Kanro Fund, equivalent to approximately 1 million dollars.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin posted on the X platform, stating that AI-accelerated mathematical research may pose new security threats to existing cryptographic systems, especially lattice-based cryptographic schemes, including ML-DSA and fully homomorphic encryption (FHE). He believes that advancements in AI in the field of mathematics over the next two years could significantly undermine the practical security of lattice cryptography, and ECDSA may face the risk of being compromised sooner than expected.Vitalik pointed out that over the past year, the Ethereum Lean roadmap has gradually shifted towards pure hash cryptographic schemes, avoiding the use of lattice-based signatures and related zero-knowledge proof structures. He suggested prioritizing the use of hash cryptography whenever feasible and adopting more conservative security parameters for lattice cryptography; privacy protocols should avoid storing encrypted information directly on-chain, and multi-signature wallets should prioritize off-chain signature confirmations. Additionally, Vitalik advised users, when operationally convenient, to store funds in addresses that have not initiated transactions to reduce potential risks, but he does not recommend users immediately migrate assets on a large scale. He emphasized that the migration process itself also carries risks, and his own losses due to migration errors have even exceeded the losses from past hacking attacks.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin released the plan for "The Computer of the Crypto World," stating that the Hegota fork scheduled for next year may be Ethereum's last "regular" fork, with subsequent upgrades introducing recursive STARK, automated formal verification, optimized consensus, and quantum security capabilities.He indicated that Ethereum will transition from a blockchain to a hybrid architecture that integrates modern cryptography. This roadmap aims to shorten transaction finality to 8 to 32 seconds, significantly reduced from the current approximately 200 seconds with 12 confirmations, and will adjust verification, consensus, and block construction mechanisms through PeerDAS, SNARK, and FOCIL.

ChainCatcher reports live from the 2026 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival, where Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin delivered a keynote speech. He defined Ethereum by two core functions: first, as a public bulletin board for applications to publish messages and data; second, as shared digital objects controlled by code, encompassing assets, NFTs, ENS, and DAOs. He emphasized that Ethereum's goal is not to compete with high-frequency trading platforms on speed, but to become the most secure, decentralized, and always-online trusted chain.Regarding the short-term roadmap, he introduced the account abstraction proposal EIP-8141, which natively supports smart contract wallets, quantum-resistant signature algorithms, and privacy protocols; in terms of quantum resistance, there are currently two signature schemes based on hash and lattice, and the team is significantly enhancing their efficiency through EVM vectorization.He revealed that ZKVM is fast enough to prove real-time EVM execution, with this year's goal being to ensure its security, planning to start deployment from a small proportion of the network, aiming to become the primary method of validation by 2028, allowing Ethereum to scale significantly without sacrificing decentralization. In terms of long-term vision, Ethereum is actively utilizing AI to generate mathematical proofs to formalize software security verification, pursuing complete quantum safety and maximum simplicity to ensure platform security does not rely on the continuous existence of any single team.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated that, in the context of the increasing prevalence of AI agents, cryptographic privacy technologies are crucial for protecting users' API call patterns and behavioral data. He pointed out that even with local AI agents, if external services can see all search or API call records, they can still infer the activities users are engaged in.Vitalik believes that a preliminary solution is to forward requests through a mixnet to hide the source of access, but service providers may demand the introduction of anti-abuse mechanisms and pay-per-call models due to facing DoS attacks. In reality, these payment methods often rely on credit cards or stablecoin systems that lack privacy protection. Therefore, he emphasized the need for cryptographic payment solutions with privacy attributes.He further noted that privacy protection needs to be considered from a full stack perspective, with the local AI agent layer being particularly critical. Vitalik likened it to the issue of healthy lifespan: if there are multiple damaging factors, addressing them one by one can yield cumulative benefits; similarly, measures to reduce the risk of data leakage can produce similar compound effects.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Vitalik Buterin has sold all 19,318 ETH from wallet 0xfeb, with a total value of 38.7 million dollars, at an average selling price of 2,004 dollars. Currently, this wallet has only 8.6 ETH left.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin posted on the X platform, stating that network layer anonymity has long been an important missing piece in the construction of privacy technology systems. Neither on-chain privacy solutions (such as Railgun) nor off-chain zero-knowledge applications (such as ZK API receipts) have managed to cover this aspect.He also pointed out that there are a considerable number of application scenarios that have low bandwidth requirements but are highly sensitive to latency. Achieving an effective balance between low latency and high anonymity is of significant importance for the development of related technological directions.

An independent core development team led by Zcash (ZEC) founder Zooko, Shielded Labs, announced that it has received a donation from Vitalik Buterin, aimed at supporting the development of Crosslink.It is reported that Crosslink enhances Zcash's existing proof-of-work (PoW) consensus mechanism by adding a parallel finality layer, thereby preventing chain reorganization and rollback attacks. All block generation and economic activity still occur on the PoW chain, while the finality mechanism anchors blocks and provides stronger settlement guarantees. By ensuring that confirmed transactions are irreversible, Crosslink reduces the risk of double spending and increases the reliability of transaction settlements. In commenting on the donation, Vitalik stated, "Zcash is one of the most trusted cryptocurrency projects, always maintaining a focus on privacy. The Crosslink project by Shielded Labs will make Zcash more secure while reducing the security budget, thus supporting its long-term sustainability."

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, in the past 3 days, Vitalik Buterin (0xfEB0...03B2) may have sold 2,779 ETH for $2,238 each as part of a "donation plan," totaling $6.22 million.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin posted on the X platform that occasionally losing finality is not a big deal; finality is meant to ensure that blocks are not rolled back. If finality is occasionally delayed by a few hours due to a significant client error, as long as erroneous blocks are not finalized, this situation is acceptable, and the chain will continue to operate during this period.Computer Science PhD Fabrizio Romano Genovese agrees with Vitalik Buterin's viewpoint, noting that when finality is lost, Ethereum becomes more like Bitcoin. He explained that Ethereum's finality mechanism is that when a block receives over 66% of validator votes, it is "justified," and if it then goes through two Epochs (64 blocks), that block is "finalized."A spokesperson for Polygon stated that the lack of finality would affect the infrastructure that relies on it, such as certain cross-chain or Layer 2 bridges, but Polygon will continue to operate normally; however, transfers from Ethereum to sidechains may be delayed while waiting for finality to be restored. AggLayer will also delay transactions from Ethereum to L2 until finality is reached again.

ChainCatcher news, reported by PRNewswire, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin announced the co-launch of the Ethereum Applications Guild (EAG), aimed at uniting developers, researchers, communities, and institutions within the Ethereum ecosystem to build an open, transparent, and sustainable collaboration mechanism, accelerating the development and implementation of native projects, and driving the Ethereum ecosystem from the "infrastructure-led" phase to the "application-driven" phase.

ChainCatcher message, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin shares a simple privacy roadmap for Ethereum L1. This includes ideas to effectively improve the privacy of Ethereum users without changing Ethereum's consensus, focusing on four types of privacy: on-chain payment privacy, partial anonymization of on-chain activities within applications, on-chain reading privacy, and network anonymity. Solutions include integrating privacy tools like Railgun into wallets, defaulting to "one address per application," implementing FOCIL and EIP-7701, and using TEE and PIR technologies to protect RPC privacy, aiming to enhance user privacy and reduce metadata leakage.

ChainCatcher news, ETH has fallen more than 8% in the past seven days and is currently down nearly 55% from its high of $4000 in December 2024. However, a recent video circulating on social media of Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin "meowing" at a robot seems to have sparked dissatisfaction within the crypto community. Several industry insiders have criticized Vitalik Buterin, such as:Cork Protocol co-founder Phil Fogel posted on the X platform, "My professional salary and net worth are largely in the hands of this meowing person." Crypto KOL Wendy O also stated, "The future of Ethereum is in the hands of this meowing person." Crypto trader Scott Crypto Warrior expressed more intense criticism, saying, "Pray for ETH, Vitalik what are you doing? Stop finding rims for robots and give ETH a boost."

ChainCatcher news, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson stated that the governance reforms of the Voltaire era prevent the chain from becoming a "dictatorship" like Ethereum and avoid Bitcoin's "anarchy." In an interview in Singapore, Hoskinson criticized Ethereum's current governance model, claiming that Ethereum relies too much on its co-founder Vitalik Buterin to guide its direction. When asked to explain his controversial remarks linking Ethereum to dictatorship, Hoskinson stated that Ethereum's "entire vision" began with Buterin but will also end with him.

ChainCatcher message, the Ethereum native privacy protocol Nocturne Labs is shutting down its operations. Nocturne has the support of prominent cryptocurrency experts, including Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, and the company announced on June 5 in an X post that it would cease operations. "The company did not provide any explanation for the closure.According to the Web3 asset data platform RootData, Nocturne was initially aimed at bringing private accounts and transactions into the Ethereum ecosystem. In October 2023, the company raised $6 million in a seed round led by Bain Capital Crypto and Polychain Capital, with Buterin also participating.