Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin proposes a radical simplification of Ethereum's core protocol over the next five years to increase resilience and reduce development overhead.
Buterin suggests replacing the EVM with a more efficient virtual machine like RISC-V and standardizing core components across Ethereum layers to cut protocol complexity.
The proposed changes aim to make Ethereum's protocol architecture easier to understand, reason about, and maintain while not compromising its larger goals in finance, governance, and data validation.
The revamp plan involves unifying backends and simplifying infrastructure to reduce technical debt and keep Ethereum scalable and robust in the long term.