Vitalik Buterin, January 8, 2026: prefers bandwidth over latency in Ethereum scaling

On January 8, 2026, Vitalik Buterin argued that prioritizing higher bandwidth is safer for Ethereum's scalability than pushing for lower latency. He highlighted PeerDAS and Zero-Knowledge Proofs as paths to potentially scale the network thousands of times, and outlined P2P improvements and smaller per-slot node counts (e.g., 512 vs 30,000) to cut propagation delays without sacrificing decentralization.