Vitalik ButerininInfinitismERC 4337: account abstraction without Ethereum protocol changesAccount abstraction has for a long time been a dream of the Ethereum developer community. Instead of EVM code just being used to implement…Sep 29, 202130Sep 29, 202130
Vitalik ButerinCantor was Wrong: debunking the infinite set hierarchyBy Vitalik Buterin, PhD at University of BaselApr 1, 201927Apr 1, 201927
Vitalik ButerinLiberation Through Radical DecentralizationBy Vitalik Buterin and Glen WeylMay 21, 201851May 21, 201851
Vitalik ButerinSafety Under Dynamic Validator SetsTraditional consensus algorithms, whether they operate in a synchronous, partially asynchronous or fully asynchronous network model, and…Mar 4, 20173Mar 4, 20173
Vitalik ButerinMinimal Slashing ConditionsLast week Yoichi released a blog post detailing the process of formally proving safety and liveness properties of my “minimal slashing…Mar 2, 201717Mar 2, 201717
Vitalik ButerinThe Meaning of Decentralization“Decentralization” is one of the words that is used in the cryptoeconomics space the most frequently, and is often even viewed as a…Feb 6, 201792Feb 6, 201792
Vitalik ButerinZk-SNARKs: Under the HoodThis is the third part of a series of articles explaining how the technology behind zk-SNARKs works; the previous articles on quadratic…Feb 3, 201716Feb 3, 201716
Vitalik ButerinParametrizing Casper: the decentralization/finality time/overhead tradeoffAs Casper continues to reach an increasingly stabilized form, there has been increased interest in the various parameters that are going to…Jan 15, 20175Jan 15, 20175
Vitalik ButerinA Proof of Stake Design PhilosophySystems like Ethereum (and Bitcoin, and NXT, and Bitshares, etc) are a fundamentally new class of cryptoeconomic organisms — decentralized…Dec 30, 201657Dec 30, 201657