Mid-term future of improving Ethereum’s permissionlessness and decentralization

Vitalik Buterin argues that Ethereum's permissionlessness and decentralization can be improved through protocol changes already in progress and realistic roadmap tweaks, responding to concerns raised by Geth core developer Peter Szilagyi. On MEV, he favors minimizing MEV alongside "MEV quarantining" via proposer/builder separation, and he supports inclusion lists that let proposers force transactions into blocks, with the view that the builder's role should shrink further. On staking, he says most non-solo stakers cite the 32 ETH minimum, and that verkle trees with EIP-4444 and a larger validator set could address the barriers to solo staking.