Published Aug 16, 2026, 10:25 AM ET · Updated 3 months ago · 2 sources
Bitcoiners deserve a lot of credit for pioneering many of these ideas (see Utreexo). But yes, this is what the current proposed Ethereum scaling strategy looks like in action. We want Ethereum to have the best of UTXO-style state, dynamic state, and everything in between, allowing the great majority of Ethereum's activity to be hyperscaled without sacrifice to decentralization, ease of node running and censorship resistance.
VitalikButerin
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Bitcoiners deserve a lot of credit for pioneering many of these ideas (see Utreexo). But yes, this is what the current proposed Ethereum scaling strategy looks like in action. We want Ethereum to have the best of UTXO-style state, dynamic state, and everything in between, allowing the great majority of Ethereum's activity to be hyperscaled without sacrifice to decentralization, ease of node running and censorship resistance.