Ethereum yesterday was 10 years old. Today, Lean Ethereum is revealed as a vision and a personal mission – for the next 10 years.
We hold at the dawn of a new era. Millions of TP. Quantum adversaries. How does Ethereum marry extreme performance with safety and decentralization without compromise?
TLDR: New generation cryptography is central to gain both offensive and defense.
Warning: this is a Drake Take ™ for a large audience. A deep technical dive in post-quantity signatures based on hash and snarks will follow. A healthy diversity of points of view through the protocol, the EF and the wider community of Ethereum is expected and welcome. It strengthens us.
Defense – Strong Mode
Ethereum is special. 100% availability From Genesis. Diversity of unrivaled customers. USD 130B in economic security (35.7 m ethn marked × 3.7K USD) – may soon be USD.
Ethereum is about to become the foundation of Internet of valuesecuring hundreds of billions of billions over decades, even centuries.
Ethereum must survive everything: nation states, quantum computers. Everything that comes. To call strong fashion. If the Internet is in place, Ethereum is in place. If the world is online, the world is onchain.
Infraction – Best mode
Ethereum is hungry. “Scale L1, Blobs Scale” is a strategic emergency inside the EF protocol pile. Expect low collection performance gains in the next 6 to 12 months.
In the longer term? Think Gigagas L1, Teragas L2. To call stupid mode.
- 1 gigagas / sec on L1: 10K TPS, ambitious vertical scale
- 1 Teragas / Sec on L2: 1 m tps, sprawling horizontal scale
VS decentralization scale? Why not both. The math of the moon we need are now tamed:
- ZKVMS in real time For Lean execution
- Data availability sampling (DAS) for Lean data
A delicious cherry on top: whole chain checks through each browser, wallet, telephone.
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Lean Ethereum offers daring upgrades through the three L1 sub-layers:
- lean consensus East Beacon Chain 2.0: hardened for ultimate security and decentralization, the more the finality in seconds; Formerly marked as “beam chain”
- lean data East Blobs 2.0: Post-toast-totum blobs, plus granular dimensioning for a Calldata type developer experience
- lean East EVM 2.0: A set of minimum instructions and snark (possibly risc-v; pronounced “risk five”), increasing performance while preserving EVM compatibility and its network effects
The consensus layer (CL), the data layer (DL), the execution layer (EL) were each been redesigned from the first principles. Together, they unlock strong mode and stupid mode.
The goal: Abundance of performance under the constraint of non -negotiable continuity, maximum hardness and refreshing simplicity.
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Hitting cryptography emerges as the ideal foundation for Lean Ethereum. It offers a unified and convincing response to two megatons reshaping the ecosystem:
- the explosive ascension
- The imminent building quantum threat
Imagine the leaner cryptographic brick – the hash function – fueling L1:
- Cl:: Global signatures based on hash Improve BLS signatures
- Dl:: DAS commitments based on hash Improve KZG commitments
- El:: Real -time zkvms based on hash upgrade the EVM re -execution
A cryptographic jewel in each of Lean Cl, Lean DL, Lean El.
craftsmanship
Lean Ethereum is more than a plan for hardening and scaling of Ethereum. More than the simple doubling of security, decentralization and advanced cryptography. It is an aesthetic. An art form. A profession. Think of Jiro Sushi dreams. When we can make an additional effort, we do it.
Minimalism. Modularity. Encapsulated complexity. Formal verification. Provable security. Provable optimality. These are subtle but important technical considerations. Stay listening for the post on post-quantum cryptography that will make them explicit.
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After 10 fantastic years, Lean Ethereum is a generational oath. To keep Ethereum online whatever happens. To put it on the scale without compromise. To make it worthy of those who come after.
This is the inheritance. We are manufacturers, we are missionaries. We are Ethereum. I hope you join us.
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