Ethereum may finally kill “trust me” wallets in 2026, and Vitalik says the fix is already shipping

Jan 18, 2026 - 21:15
Ethereum may finally kill “trust me” wallets in 2026, and Vitalik says the fix is already shipping
Vitalik Buterin framed 2026 as the year Ethereum reverses a decade of convenience-first compromises. His thesis: the protocol stayed trustless, but the defaults drifted. Wallets outsourced verification to centralized RPCs. Decentralized applications became server-dependent behemoths that leak user data to dozens of endpoints. Block building is concentrated in the hands of a few sophisticated actors....

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