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Vitalik Buterin Emphasizes Security Over Speed in Ethereum
Vitalik Buterin, the creator of Ethereum, has announced that the race for speed in the zero-knowledge Ethereum era is over. He now emphasizes security as the primary goal. He congratulated the ZKsync Airbender team for achieving a new milestone and called on teams building zkEVMs to focus on security. Vitalik outlined three goals for formal verification, including ensuring the mathematics behind the proofs match the Ethereum spec exactly and setting a hard maximum on prover cost for the amount of gas in a block. The announcement comes as Ethereum's price is near $2,365, down about 15% from the late September high. The RSI is near 38, indicating sellers have control, but a bounce could form if the orange and black averages hold.