Vitalik Baterin suggests replacement of EVM with RISC-V for scaling

Etherum Co-Founder suggested replacing Etherum Virtual Machine with Risc-V, an open source architecture, as a new foundation for Etherum Smart Contracts.

In a mail Shared on the Etherum Magianians forum. April, Baterin claimed that the switch could drastically improve the performance and simplicity of Etherum’s (El) A layer of performing. EVM is responsible executable Smart Contracting Code over the Etherum network.

According to Baterina, his restrictions have become a long-lasting bottleneck for scaling. He believes to replace him with the RISC-V, a hardware-standard architecture that has already been used in EVMs with zero knowledge, could provide mass improvements in evidence of efficiency, especially for zero-based scaling.

ZK-EVMS is currently translated by Etherum operations in the RISC before making evidence. Baterin recommends developers write contracts directly composed at the RISC-V, bypass this mediator step. Popular programming programs like firmness and Vipor, said still functional, but would focus on the RISC-V, not EVM.

Etherum would not change its interconnection communication, abstractions of smart contracts or current account structure. The change would primarily affect the computation process on the back. The background will be maintained, enabling the legacy EVM contracts to continue working and interacting with the new RISC contracts.

According to Baterina, this modification can increase the effectiveness of diameters for over 50 times, or more in some cases, helping Etherum to maintain its competitive advantage over faster monolithic blockages like Solana (Salt) and sui (Sui).

This proposal coincides with many years of lowest temperatures in Etherum network use. According to the Santimenta dataThe average transaction fee fell to $ 0.16 in April, lowest than 2020. years. The decline is related to the decrease in the activity L1 as users move to the network layer-2 to perform lower costs. Previously improvements have largely focused on reducing the cost of storage L2, but also have significant reduced L1 income.

Although Etherum’s Petra upgrade It was set for 7. May, Bater’s invitation for fundamental changes suggests that perhaps minor changes may not be enough. To improve long-term scalability and others with high performance chains, Etherum may need to review the basic characteristics of its Smart Contract System.