Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin announced that the team has made significant progress this year towards Ethereum's long-term goals of scalability, decentralization, and resilience.
While Buterin argued that important milestones in the short-term roadmap are approaching, he also brought up a new technical proposal.
Buterin introduced a proposal for a minimal zkVM (zero-knowledge virtual machine) called “leanVM.” Buterin noted that leanVM is optimized for XMSS aggregation and recursion, and that, compared to Cairo, leanVM significantly reduces processing costs by using a four-instruction ISA, multilinear STARKs, and logup lookups.
Buterin said in a statement:
The Ethereum team is doing a truly exceptional job across the board this year. I expect these ideas to come to fruition alongside key milestones in the near-term roadmap to ensure scalability, decentralization, and resilience. I also appreciate the emphasis placed on writing each piece in very few lines of code. Protocols are not just quick-fix solutions coded for short-term convenience. Protocols are, and should be, seen as, works of art.
*This is not investment advice.
