Let’s go straight to it.
At ETHDenver 2026, happening right now in Denver,
@VitalikButerin
dropped this: the 2014 Web3 vision? It’s finally real. And ZK-EVMs are the reason
Think of it like this, your apps can now prove they’re doing the right thing without showing anyone all your data. Rollups make transactions cheap enough to actually use. Off-chain tools handle messaging and storage. The whole thing just works.
Vitalik Buterin called Ethereum an “organism” with layers for logic, communication, and storage.
And the interesting part?
It can now coordinate AI agents. Bots paying bots, trading data, running services… all on-chain.
It’s live. And that changes the game.