Full text of Vitalik's long-term L1 executive layer proposal: replacing the EVM with RISC-V

Source: Vitalik Buterin

Compilation: KarenZ, Foresight News

On April 20th, Vitalik Buterin presented an important proposal on the Ethereum Magicians platform for Ethereum's long-term L1 execution layer. He proposed replacing the existing EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) with the RISC-V architecture as a virtual machine language for writing smart contracts, aiming to fundamentally improve the operational efficiency of Ethereum's execution layer, break through one of the current major scaling bottlenecks, and greatly simplify the simplicity of the execution layer.

Foresight News has compiled the full text of the proposal to help readers understand this technical vision. Here's a compilation of the original proposal:

This article presents a radical idea for the future of Ethereum's execution layer, no less ambitious than the consensus layer's Beam Chain initiative. The proposal aims to dramatically improve the efficiency...

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