BREKING 🚨

Vitalik’s shift isn’t a retreat from self-sovereignty — it’s an evolution. ZK-SNARKs allow users to prove validity without replaying full transaction history, solving scalability and privacy limits of pure self-verification. This supports mass adoption without handing control to centralized actors.

The key signal: self-verification stays as a fallback. That means decentralization remains the safety net if intermediaries fail or censor. Ethereum is positioning for a hybrid future: ZK-first for efficiency, sovereignty-ready for resilience.

Coin Mention / Narrative Plays

$AUCTION – ZK infrastructure + cross-chain verification exposure

$ZKC – ZK-native sovereignty narrative

$BANK – Middleware risk if trust layers centralize

🧠 Big picture: ZK doesn’t kill self-sovereignty — it makes it usable at scale.