Source: Cointelegraph
Original: “Vitalik Buterin Proposes New Ethereum (ETH) Scaling Solution: Introducing Partially Stateless Nodes”
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin recently unveiled a proposal aimed at preserving Ethereum's trustless and censorship-resistant access capabilities, even as the network continues to scale.
On May 19, Buterin published an article detailing how to make Ethereum's layer one scaling more "user-friendly" for individuals running local nodes. The Ethereum co-founder emphasized the importance of independent users running nodes, pointing out the significant censorship risks posed by a market dominated by a few remote procedure call (RPC) providers.
RPC providers allow wallets, users, and applications to interact with the blockchain without having to run their own nodes. In fact, cryptocurrency wallets often connect silently to RPC providers in the background. Buterin believes this architectural design poses potential risks.
"A market structure dominated by a few RPC providers will face strong pressure to ban or censor users. Several RPC providers have already completely excluded users from specific countries," Buterin stated in the article.
In addition to censorship issues, Buterin further argued that the high costs of fully trustless crypto solutions and factors like metadata privacy protection indicate that providing a more convenient operating environment for individual node operators holds significant value.
In this proposal, Buterin's solution relies on an innovative node design called "partially stateless nodes." These nodes are specifically designed to help users maintain privacy-protecting access to blockchain data while significantly reducing the resource consumption required to run traditional full nodes.
As the Ethereum network scales and gas limits increase, running a full node requires more and more storage space and network bandwidth. Buterin stated that partially stateless nodes effectively address this issue by allowing users to verify the blockchain and provide local data services while only storing a subset of Ethereum state based on individual needs.
These nodes will validate the blockchain in a stateless manner. This means they do not need to store the complete Merkle proof or the entire blockchain history but can selectively maintain updates to specific state data.
Specifically, users can configure their nodes to only save data related to their own accounts, commonly used decentralized finance (DeFi) applications, and tokens they use daily (such as stablecoins and Ethereum).
The remaining data will be intentionally omitted, and when queries exceed the stored subset, requests will either fail or be redirected to be handled through RPC solutions.
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