Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Blerin has called for alleviating Ethereum’s base protocol, aimed at making the network better, safe and accessible, drawing inspiration from the minimalist Bitcoin design.
On a blog Post The entitled “L1 simplifying,” published on May 3, Baterin laid a vision to rearrange Ethereum’s architecture throughout the conclusion, implementation and shared components.
“This post will describe how Ethereum 5 years from now can be as close to as simple as Bitcoin,” Baterin wrote, focusing that simplicity was key to Ethereum’s stable and long -term scalability.
While these recent upgrades such as Proof-of-Stake (POS) And the zero-knowledge succinct non-interactive argument of knowledge (ZK-snark) integration made Ethereum more stable, he said technical complexity led to bloated development of cycles, higher costs and greater risk of bugs:
“Historically, Ethereum has often not done this (sometimes because of my own decisions), and it contributes to most of our excessive expenditure in development, all kinds of security risks, and the futility of R&D culture, which often pursues the benefits that have been proven incidentally.”
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A major area of focus is the Ethereum consensus layer. The center of this effort is the proposed “3-slot finality” model, which removes complex ingredients such as seasons, validator sync and shuffling committees.
“The reduced number of active validators at a time means that it becomes safer to use a simpler implementation of the fork selection rule,” Blerin wrote.
Other suggested improvements include allowing for more straightforward fork selection policies and adoption of measured transparent knowledge argument (STARK) -based computing protocols to decentralize and simplify network coordination.
In the implementation layer, Blerin suggested a move from the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) to a simpler, zk-friendly virtual machine like RISC-V. This step can offer 100x performance improvement for proof zero-knowledge and significantly simplify the protocol.
RISC-V is an open-source instruction set architecture (one) used In designing computer processors. It follows a minimalist design philosophy, using a small set of simple instructions for high efficiency and easier implementation.
To maintain the backward compatibility, Blerin proposed the operation of the legacy of EVM contracts through a RISC-V translator while supporting the same VMS at once in a transitional stage.
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Baterin calls for standards throughout the protocol
Buterin also promotes the standardization protocol. He suggested adopting a single erasure coding method, serialization format (SSZ favor), and tree structure to reduce the redundant complexity and streamline tool and Ethereum’s infrastructure.
“Simplicity is in many ways similar to decentralization,” Blerin wrote. He suggested that the Ethereum adopted a “max line-of-code” target similar to Tinygrad’s doing, maintaining the agreed critical logic as lean and heard as much as possible.
Features that are not critical heritage will remain but live outside the main detail.
Blerin’s proposal aimed at simplifying Ethereum is coming as the network continues to lose its market sharing with competing blockchains.
During the panel discussion at the cointelegraph event’s longitude on May 2, Alex Svanevik, CEO of Data Service Nansen, Ethereum’s relative said The dominance of the L1 blockchain networks refused.
“If you ask me 3-4 years ago if Ethereum dominates the crypto, I will say yes,” Svanevik said in a panel discussion at the longitude of the cointelegraph event. “But now, it’s obvious that that’s not the case.”
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