Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said that currently Ethereum nodes can be synchronized within half a day, and with more aggressive settings, disk usage can be reduced to below 0.5 TB. Optimizations for snapshot synchronization introduced by EIP-4444 and the client teams have significantly improved the syncing experience. The upcoming Glammersterdam upgrade will further enhance sync performance. He also said that some browser-based DApps have poor support for local nodes, while others fix the RPC to their own servers, so he has increasingly leaned toward handling operations via the command line. He has used a local Python script to successfully update ENS records via his local node. Next, he will work on further integrating the privacy protocol with kohaku-cli; some of the early development work has already been completed.