PANews reported on January 17th, citing Cointelegraph, that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated that by 2026, Ethereum will regain its lost ground in autonomy and trustlessness, no longer compromising its core values for mainstream adoption, and rebuilding a stronger decentralized ecosystem. Vitalik noted that over the past decade, Ethereum nodes have become harder to run, DApp data breaches have become severe, wallets have shifted from local RPC to third-party leaked data, and block building has become more centralized, leading to transaction inclusivity being influenced by a few builders.