lean Ethereum | Ethereum Foundation Blog

Vitalik Buterin's... no, the article does not name its author, so I should not attribute it. The post unveils "lean Ethereum," described as a vision and personal mission for Ethereum's next 10 years, with next-generation cryptography presented as central to both defense and offense. It proposes upgrades across all three L1 layers: lean consensus (beacon chain 2.0 with finality in seconds), lean data (post-quantum blobs 2.0), and lean execution (EVM 2.0 built on a SNARK-friendly instruction set, possibly RISC-V). It also cites Ethereum's 100% uptime since genesis and about 130B USD in economic security (35.7M ETH staked at 3.7K USD), and it sets a goal of 1 gigagas/sec on L1 and 1 teragas/sec on L2.