Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has proposed a framework combining zero-knowledge proofs and AI to rebuild DAO infrastructure and improve governance. The approach targets scalability, privacy, and more automated decision-making for projects running on ETH.
Ethereum co‑founder Vitalik Buterin warned that relentless feature additions to preserve backward compatibility have increased protocol complexity and called for a 'garbage collection' phase to prune obsolete state. He argues cleanup is needed to ease node burden and long‑term maintainability.