Vitalik: Ethereum node synchronization has been reduced to under half a day, and future upgrades will further improve it.

TechFlow reports that on September 26, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated that Ethereum nodes can currently synchronize in half a day; with aggressive configurations, disk usage can be reduced to below 0.5 TB. This is primarily due to EIP-4444, as well as continuous optimizations by client teams on snapshot sync. The upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade will further improve node synchronization, and Nimbus's new sync protocol has already adopted the relevant mechanisms.

Vitalik added that users can direct their wallet's Remote Procedure Call (RPC) to a local node, but the node's RPC functionality must be correctly configured. Some browser-embedded dApps may not effectively support local RPC, while other applications have already pinned their RPC to their own servers. Next, the Kohaku CLI tool will further integrate privacy protocols, with preliminary development already completed.