Ethereum 2.0, as a stateless protocol, would increase its security, according to Quilt’s Will Villanueva. Ethereum 2.0: So close yet so far away Ethereum 2.0 feels so close yet so away as it seems to near completion, but at the same time, Vitalik Buterinkeeps introducing several proposals. The latest proposal wast to design Ethereum 2.0 as a stateless protocol. A stateless protocol does not maintains a storage/state in a node. Stateless protocol A representative from Quilt, a team, focusing on designing Ethereum 2.0, Will Villanueva appeared in a podcast to discuss the stateless protocol proposal. He revealed that the team