The Extremely Lean Chain

mishaderidder.eth · 2026-07-06T07:38:35.000Z

Special thanks to Emile, Potuz, Anders Elowsson for initial feedback and review. The goal of this post will be to show how the Ethereum consensus chain, in the context of “Lean” upgrades (single-slot finality, recursive-STARK-based quantum-resistant signature aggregation…) can be designed to aggressively minimize state requirements, by pushing responsibility to stakers to manage and occasionally ZK-prove their state. This removes the burdens of “end-of-epoch processing” (which in few-slot final...

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The Extremely Lean Chain

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