Decentralized computing sovereignty is under siege, and this may be a consensus among many industry insiders. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik recently made a statement that drew attention — he believes 2026 will be a key year to "regain lost computing sovereignty," and this shift is certainly not limited to the blockchain space.

What exactly drives this judgment? Vitalik's answer is straightforward: over-reliance on centralized service platforms has become a hidden danger, and personal data sovereignty has become a luxury. Rather than just talking about it, he has chosen to take action. By 2025, Vitalik has almost completely migrated his work to the decentralized encrypted document platform Fileverse, and his communication tools have shifted from mainstream applications to Signal, which offers stronger privacy protection. He also plans to replace Google Maps with an open-source mapping solution by 2026.

From documents to communication and navigation, this complete decentralized toolchain signals that the future is not a choice but an inevitable trend. The replacement of infrastructure often begins with the practical validation by pioneers, and Vitalik's series of actions may be writing a new narrative for the entire Web3 ecosystem.