Vitalik Buterin says AI could accelerate Ethereum’s roadmap by decades
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The Ethereum co-founder says AI tools are doing heavy lifting on research and code that might otherwise have stretched into 2040 or 2050 Vitalik Buterin thinks artificial intelligence just bought Ethereum a couple of decades. Speaking at the Network State Conference 2026 in Singapore, the Ethereum co-founder said AI is speeding up work on the network’s protocol upgrades by a dramatic margin. Without it, he suggested, some of the roadmap’s goals could have taken until 2040 or even 2050 to reach. The interview took place on October 9, 2026, and was reported the following day.
Source: Crypto Briefing
