Vitalik Says Ethereum Should Scale Bandwidth Over Latency to Preserve Decentralization

Vitalik argues Ethereum should prioritize increasing bandwidth (via PeerDAS and ZK proofs) because it scales safely without sacrificing decentralization, unlike aggressive latency reduction which is constrained by physics and economics.

🔹 “Ethereum is NOT the world video game server, it is the world heartbeat.”

🔸 “If you need to build applications that are faster than the heartbeat, they will need to have offchain components. This is a big part of why L2s will continue to have a role even in a greatly scaled Ethereum”