TechFlow news, May 19 — Vitalik Buterin released an Ethereum scaling roadmap adjustment proposal on May 19, highlighting the introduction of the "partially stateless nodes" concept, aiming to balance network scalability with node decentralization. This approach allows users to run nodes storing only partial state data while maintaining trustless, censorship-resistant, and privacy-friendly local access.
The proposal also prioritizes full deployment of EIP-4444, reducing node data retention period to approximately 36 days, significantly lowering disk space requirements. It further suggests building a distributed historical storage solution and adjusting the gas pricing mechanism by increasing storage costs while reducing execution costs.
This adjustment is expected to maintain the feasibility of running personal nodes even if L1 gas limits increase 10 to 100 times, preserving Ethereum's decentralized nature.
