US EditionVitalik wants to make Ethereum ‘as simple as Bitcoin’ in 5 years
- On May 3, 2025, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published a blog outlining plans to simplify Ethereum's base protocol inspired by Bitcoin's minimalist design.
- This initiative responds to Ethereum's declining market dominance and aims to address complexity issues that have increased costs, bugs, and security risks.
- Buterin proposes restructuring Ethereum's architecture with a 3-slot finality model, eliminating complex elements like epochs and validator shuffling, and shifting to a ZK-friendly virtual machine such as RISC-V.
- Buterin envisions that within the next five years, Ethereum could be streamlined to approach the straightforwardness of Bitcoin, a change expected to deliver up to 100-fold enhancements in zero-knowledge proof performance and bolster the protocol’s security.
- If implemented, Buterin's plan could improve Ethereum's efficiency, security, and accessibility, potentially boosting developer engagement and reversing market share losses to competitors.
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