Vitalik Buterin: Building an “Ethereum that follows cryptopunk principles and is not ugly”

According to the news, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin is promoting a “more ambitious” plan — to build a “Ethereum that follows cryptopunk principles and is not ugly” based on the existing system, and integrate and interoperate as closely as possible, while ensuring that Ethereum itself obtains system-level features such as censorship resistance and ZK friendliness.

The core of this vision is the FOCil mechanism (EIP-7805), which has just been determined to be incorporated into the HEGOTA hard fork. The mechanism guarantees censorship resistance at the protocol layer by requiring validators to include all transactions. If the packaged block ignores valid transactions, the chain will be forked and bypassed. The accompanying EIP-8141 account abstraction upgrade supports native functions such as smart wallets, multiple signatures, and anti-quantum keys.

These upgrades aim to “harden” the Ethereum base layer, while scaling while retaining its core values. Previously, Buterin had indicated that he would gradually abandon the “Rollup-centered” roadmap and move to a lower level of restructuring.