Vitalik Buterin Reveals Personal Goals for 2025: What’s Next for Ethereum?

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has outlined the key priorities he plans to focus on in 2025 to help shape the future of the Ethereum ecosystem. Sharing both his personal objectives and the Ethereum Foundation’s core areas of attention, Buterin emphasized the vision of making the network more secure, decentralized, and user-friendly.

Recently, Ethereum Foundation officials announced that the Fusaka hard fork is expected to launch in the third or fourth quarter of 2025.

Buterin’s Long-Term Vision for Ethereum

According to his post on Warpcast, Buterin’s top priority for 2025 is further development of the Ethereum Layer 1 (L1) network. His goals in this area include:

• Single-slot finality: Allowing transactions to be confirmed faster and more securely

• A robust long-term virtual machine (VM) architecture

• Statelessness: Making it easier to join the network and improving decentralization

• Balancing security, resilience, and decentralization

A Privacy and Security-Focused Ecosystem

Buterin stressed the importance of providing full security and privacy not only at the protocol level but also throughout the application layer. Key priorities in this regard include:

• Ensuring wallets and apps are fully open-source

• Eliminating centralized intermediaries

• Protecting user data privacy

A Broader Perspective

Buterin also expressed his desire to support Ethereum’s growth as a wider digital infrastructure and social system. This includes focusing on:

• Governance models

• Public goods and open-source funding

• Innovations in cryptography, operating systems, hardware, and even biodefense

Areas Where Buterin Will Be Less Involved

Buterin noted that he will step back from certain areas, entrusting others to lead key initiatives such as:

• Short-term scaling solutions, including increasing the L1 gas limit by 10x by 2026

• Peer-to-peer networking, block construction, and other technical research

• Operational leadership within the Ethereum Foundation

These efforts are now being spearheaded by contributors like @gakonst, @ansgar.eth, @dankrad, @hww, and @tkstanczak.

Ethereum Foundation’s Goals for 2025

Buterin summarized the Ethereum Foundation’s twin goals for the coming year as follows:

1. Increasing meaningful usage of Ethereum—usage that reflects the network’s core values and capabilities

2. Strengthening Ethereum’s resilience and decentralization by addressing vulnerabilities across the stack

These forward-looking insights by Buterin provide a roadmap for Ethereum’s future and suggest that 2025 could be a transformative year for the network and its community.