{"id":22968,"date":"2025-04-21T09:32:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T09:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=22968"},"modified":"2025-04-21T09:32:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T09:32:12","slug":"cardano-founder-says-buterins-new-ethereum-proposal-makes-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=22968","title":{"rendered":"Cardano Founder Says Buterin\u2019s New Ethereum Proposal \u2018Makes Sense\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A fleeting exchange on social media has drawn two of the crypto sector\u2019s most prominent protocol architects into unexpected alignment. On Sunday, Cardano creator Charles Hoskinson replied<\/a> to a technical blog post from Ethereum co\u2011founder Vitalik Buterin with a terse endorsement: \u201cIt makes sense, we are using RISC V with BitVMX. It\u2019s the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Buterin\u2019s Latest Proposal For Ethereum<\/h2>\n

The comment was triggered by Buterin\u2019s newly published<\/a> \u201cLong\u2011term L1 execution layer proposal\u201d on the Ethereum Magicians forum, where he argues that Ethereum should abandon the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) in favour of the open\u2011source RISC\u2011V instruction\u2011set architecture.<\/p>\n

In the proposal Buterin calls the idea \u201cequally as ambitious as the beam\u2011chain effort is for the consensus layer,\u201d contending that a RISC\u2011V transition would \u201cgreatly improve the efficiency of the Ethereum execution layer, resolving one of the primary scaling bottlenecks,\u201d while also simplifying the core codebase. He stresses that the familiar account model and opcodes \u201cwould stay exactly the same,\u201d explaining that opcodes such as SLOAD, SSTORE and CALL would be exposed to contracts as RISC\u2011V syscalls.<\/p>\n

\u201cOld\u2011style EVM contracts will continue to work and will be fully two\u2011way interoperable with new\u2011style RISC\u2011V contracts,\u201d he adds, sketching implementation paths that range from a dual\u2011VM environment to a more radical interpreter\u2011based migration.<\/p>\n

Buterin\u2019s technical motivation centres on the cost of proving EVM execution inside zero\u2011knowledge circuits. He points to measurements from Succinct\u2019s ZK\u2011EVM showing that four tasks\u2014deserialising inputs, initialising the witness database, computing state roots and executing blocks\u2014consume the bulk of prover cycles.<\/p>\n

The last of those, block execution, alone accounts for roughly half of total proving time. \u201cSome numbers suggest that in limited cases, this could give efficiency gains over 100 \u00d7,\u201d Buterin writes, suggesting that direct access to a RISC\u2011V virtual machine could eliminate the overhead of compiling the EVM into RISC\u2011V for ZK proof generation. He argues that even if pre\u2011compiles become the new bottleneck, the shift would still produce \u201cvery significant\u201d performance wins.<\/p>\n

Cardano\u2019s Use Of RISC\u2011V<\/h2>\n

Hoskinson\u2019s swift assent carries weight because Cardano has been building around the same architecture. The network\u2019s extended UTxO model is now being paired with BitVMX FORCE, a collaborative effort<\/a> designed to let Cardano dApps tap into Bitcoin\u2019s liquidity and decentralised\u2011finance activity.<\/p>\n

BitVMX emulates a general\u2011purpose CPU for Bitcoin using RISC\u2011V, which in turn lets Cardano\u2019s domain\u2011specific languages\u2014Plutus and the low\u2011level Aiken\u2014compile contracts that run seamlessly on either chain. By adopting the same instruction set for its off\u2011chain circuits, Cardano hopes to render zero\u2011knowledge proofs<\/a> more efficient and to facilitate cross\u2011chain functionality without resorting to trusted bridges.<\/p>\n

RISC\u2011V\u2019s appeal is two\u2011fold. As an open specification it avoids licensing constraints while offering implementers freedom to add extensions; at the same time, it\u2019s simple, orthogonal design is friendlier to zero\u2011knowledge proof systems than the EVM\u2019s eclectic opcode catalogue or Bitcoin\u2019s austere script. Hoskinson\u2019s \u201cIt\u2019s the future\u201d therefore describes not merely Cardano\u2019s roadmap<\/a> but a growing industry trend, now echoed inside Ethereum\u2019s own research circles.<\/p>\n

Whether Ethereum\u2019s highly conservative core\u2011dev process will embrace Buterin\u2019s proposal remains uncertain. The Beacon\u2011chain merge, the Cancun\/Deneb upgrade and the push toward statelessness already crowd the execution\u2011layer agenda. Yet the fact that both a UTXO\u2011based competitor and the originator of account\u2011based smart contracts now cite RISC\u2011V as the optimal long\u2011term target suggests that the argument will not dissipate quickly. As Buterin concludes, stripping the base layer to \u201cwell within\u201d ten thousand lines of code may require \u201cthis kind of radical change.\u201d<\/p>\n

At press time, Cardano traded at $0.64.<\/p>\n

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A fleeting exchange on social media has drawn two of the crypto sector\u2019s most prominent protocol architects into unexpected alignment. On Sunday, Cardano creator Charles Hoskinson replied to a technical blog post from Ethereum co\u2011founder Vitalik Buterin with a terse endorsement: \u201cIt makes sense, we are using RISC V with BitVMX. It\u2019s the future.\u201d Buterin\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-22968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}