Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin Reverses Stance: Why ZK-SNARKs Are Now Ethereum’s ‘Magic Pill’
Vitalik Buterin has publicly moved away from his 2017 skepticism and is now advocating ZK-SNARKs as a central fix for Ethereum’s verification, scalability, and privacy constraints. He framed this repositioning around advances in zero-knowledge cryptography and tooling that he says can make full user self-verification feasible in 2026.