TechFlow news: Ethereum core development team lead Péter Szilágyi recently issued a warning on social media, stating that the upcoming PeerDAS upgrade could severely threaten Ethereum's decentralization. Szilágyi pointed out that PeerDAS plans to increase blob size to 32MB, which would impose extremely high network bandwidth requirements for block production—potentially reaching 2.5Gbit/s. He stated, "This is effectively killing home stakers. This isn't what I expected when I joined Ethereum."
Szilágyi questioned the motivations of the Ethereum research team, suggesting they have "fully embraced the idea that as long as something is verifiable, it can be centralized in every way."
He called on the community to ask researchers about their concrete vision for Ethereum over the next five years, including who will create blocks, who will store state, and what ordinary users will be able to do without third-party operators. Szilágyi emphasized that if the final system fails to become a "global settlement layer" trusted by nations around the world, then Ethereum has already failed.
