Vitalik Speaks Out: Ethereum's Endgame Is Not Faster, But "Immutable"

Vitalik Buterin reaffirmed at the Hong Kong Web3 Carnival: the core of Ethereum is not just the chain, but two things—"public bulletin board" and "shared digital objects."
In simple terms, Ethereum's goal is not to be the fastest network, but to build a "trustworthy infrastructure" that anyone can verify and cannot be controlled by a single point.
He emphasized that truly valuable decentralized applications must have:
Security autonomy, verifiability, fair participation, and the ability for users to spontaneously gather.
The roadmap for the next four years is also very clear:

Continuous scaling, reducing costs and improving efficiency

Advancing zkEVM to meet more complex computational needs

Preemptively deploying quantum-resistant cryptography

Strengthening account abstraction to make wallets smarter

The longer-term goals are even more "hardcore": ultimate security consensus, formal verification, protocol simplicity, and comprehensive quantum security. There are even plans to enable phones to directly verify chain data (zkVM), aiming for large-scale expansion before 2028.
The core logic can be summarized in one sentence:
Ethereum is not racing for speed, but building a system that becomes more reliable the longer it runs.
Markets chase hot topics, but value settles in the underlying.
You may not understand short-term fluctuations, but you must understand the long-term direction—truly great things are never about overnight surges, but about standing strong for ten years.