In a post today, Vitalik Buterin stated that 2026 will be the year of regaining computing self-sovereignty, emphasizing that he has begun to reduce data leaks to centralized services. He mentioned that last year he switched to Fileverse encrypted documents and Signal/Simplex/Session messaging applications (all decentralized open-source applications), and in 2026 he will further shift to OpenStreetMap/Protonmail and decentralized social networking to protect location and communication privacy. Vitalik also discussed the progress and pain points of locally deployed LLM, suggesting a future path to efficient privacy computing through a combination of technologies such as ZKP, TEE, and FHE.
