'You are not scaling Ethereum': Vitalik Buterin issues a blunt reality check to the biggest crypto networks CoinDesk: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Crypto News and Price Data By: Margaux Nijkerk Β· AI Boost 3 February 2026 at 17:19 The roadmap in place doesn't make as much sense because progress among layer-2s toward later stages of decentralization has been slower and more difficult, and Ethereum itself is now scaling directly on layer-1.