Vitalik Buterin says rollups must prove security before decentralizing

By: the crypto news wire|2025/05/05 19:15:58
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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said rollups should decentralize only when proof systems are strong enough to make centralization the greater risk. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin explained when rollup-based layer-2 platforms should go decentralized, and why “as soon as possible” is not the correct answer. In a May 5 X post , Buterin said there is a right time for rollup-based scalability solutions to transition to a decentralized model. This moment depends on how low the proof system’s failure probability has fallen compared with the risks introduced by centralization. Buterin’s thread came in response to a separate post by decentralized exchange Loopring founder and CEO Daniel Wang. Wang said in his thread that the maturity of a system matters to its security: Read more

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