Vitalik Buterin Discusses Future of Ethereum L1 at Hong Kong Web3 Carnival

According to Foresight News, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin delivered a keynote speech titled 'The Future of Ethereum L1' at the ETHAsia 2025 event during the 2025 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival. In his address, Buterin explored the potential outcomes of further expanding Ethereum's Layer 1 (L1) network. Buterin suggested that the same technologies used to scale Layer 2 (L2) solutions could eventually be applied to L1. He explained that L2 solutions leverage the asymmetry between production and verification, a concept that could also be utilized by L1. In such a scenario, Buterin outlined the roles L2 would play, including handling ultra-large scale operations that surpass the capabilities of native data availability (DA), improving transaction ordering with lower latency and protection against maximal extractable value (MEV), and implementing diverse virtual machine (VM) designs. The discussion highlighted the evolving landscape of Ethereum's infrastructure and the potential for L1 to adopt innovations initially developed for L2, thereby enhancing the overall efficiency and functionality of the network.