Vitalik Buterin: Lean Ethereum Consensus Privacy Path

Vitalik Buterin detailed a technical path to make the Lean Ethereum consensus chain far more aggressive on size reduction while embedding strong validator privacy through ZK-unlink deposits from staking activity and daily re-anonymization of stakers, linking directly to the ethresear.ch proposal. Ethereum developers now face concrete design choices that could shrink state growth and shield validator flows without sacrificing security. On the 4h chart ETH trades at $1762.71 inside the Bollinger band with upper resistance at $1802.74, EMA50 support holding at $1703.04 and EMA200 at $1747.27 while MACD shows a death cross at 28.76 and RSI sits neutral at 58.93, pointing to a probable healthy retracement toward the 50-EMA before any continuation higher.