Ethereum’s Endgame: Simplicity, Strength, and Total Domination
Ethereum isn’t just upgrading—it’s rewriting the rules. The network’s latest pivot cuts complexity while bulking up security, aiming to become the universal settlement layer for everything from DeFi to your grandma’s will.
Why it matters: Other chains talk decentralization while quietly running validator cartels. Ethereum’s roadmap actually delivers—though Wall Street will still find a way to tokenize your mortgage.
The bottom line: If this works, we’re looking at the Apple of blockchains—closed enough to work flawlessly, open enough to keep the anarchists happy. Just don’t ask about the gas fees during bull runs.
In brief
- Vitalik wants to simplify Ethereum’s core by limiting critical code as in Bitcoin.
- RISC-V could replace the EVM, with estimated ZK performance gains of x100.
- Unification around SSZ and a single Merkle tree aims for more readability and efficiency.
- The vision: strengthen layer 1 to remain the sovereign base for assets and L2s.
Back to simplicity: Vitalik Buterin’s crusade
The goal of Vitalik Buterin is clear:“by a smart high school student“. To do this, he wants to, similar to Bitcoin. Theis one of the keys to this simplification. This model eliminates complex components like epochs, synchronization committees, and validator reshuffling. Result: a simpler, more readable, and faster consensus than the current Gasper protocol.
Buterin points out that “a basic implementation of 3-slot finality fits in 200 lines of code“. Fewer lines of code means fewer bugs, wider developer involvement, and a reduction in technical elitism.
Sassal.eth adds:
A simplified L1 also makes solo staking more accessible.
RISC-V: Towards a Faster and More Universal Virtual Machine
Thehas become: 256-bit architecture, useless opcodes, costly maintenance. Buterin proposes a radical leap: replacing the EVM with RISC-V, a simple and standardized virtual machine. This transition could offer, while reducing the need to maintain complex precompilations.
: an on-chain EVM interpreter would enable coexistence with the old contracts. Sassal.eth highlights the importance of this evolution:
We want tokens to be natively deployed on L1.
Key points:
- RISC-V is already used in many embedded processors;
- The RISC-V specification is ten times shorter than that of the EVM;
- Ethereum could remove most precompilations with this change;
- Eventually, Ethereum would natively understand only RISC-V, not the EVM.
Harmonization: a single standard for all Ethereum
Currently, Ethereum uses. Buterin wants to. He also proposes adopting a single error-correcting code for all functions (DAS, P2P, storage). The goal is to.
Sassal.eth emphasizes the importance of this unification:
All digital assets should be natively issued on L1.
Buterin summarizes this vision by stating:
The goal is to move as much complexity as possible out of the consensus.
Ethereum aspires to become a solid foundation again, a clear base for a broader ecosystem. By rethinking its layer 1, it hopes to attract developers, asset issuers, and restore trust. Buterin, already the author of a decisive plan for the survival of his own blockchain, thinks far ahead, and so does Sassal.eth. And while the world turns to layer 2 solutions, Ethereum strengthens its foundations to better remain the center of gravity of decentralization.
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