2026

On January 23, Vitalik shared a post stating that 2026 will be the year of reclaiming computing self-sovereignty, highlighting the start of reducing data leakage to centralized services. He noted he switched to Fileverse encrypted documents and Signal/Simplex/Session messaging apps last year—all decentralized open-source tools—and plans to further transition to OpenStreetMap, Protonmail, and decentralized social networks in 2026 to safeguard location and communication privacy. Vitalik also discussed the progress and pain points of deploying large language models (LLMs) locally, outlining a future path for efficient privacy computing through a combination of technologies like zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP), trusted execution environments (TEE), and fully homomorphic encryption (FHE).

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