Vitalik has revealed his 2025 personal focus areas, involving L1 long-term roadmap, full-stack security, open source, and more

On April 30th, the co-founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, published a post disclosing his personal focus areas for 2025: · Ethereum specifically: (i) The L1 Long-term Roadmap (e.g., single-slot finality, long-term virtual machine, statelessness, security/resilience/decentralization) (ii) Full-stack security, open source, and privacy: Ensuring that Ethereum is utilized in a highly secure, decentralized, and privacy-friendly manner, including at higher layers (applications, wallets, etc.) · [Link: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/01/05/dacc2.html] for Big-Picture d/acc · Communication tools, information and social layer, mechanism design, such as governance, public goods/open-source funding · Cryptography, operating systems, hardware, physical infrastructure, bio defense