A brief exchange on social media has put two of the most outstanding protocol architects in the cryptocurrency sector into unexpected consistency. On Sunday, Cardano creator Charles Hoskinson answered a tech blog post by Ethereum co-founder Vitaler Buterin and gave a brief approval: “It makes sense, we use RISC V with BitVMX. It’s the future.”
Buterin’s latest advice on Ethereum
The comment was triggered by Buterin’s new “L1 Execution Layer Proposal” published on the Ethereum Magicians Forum, who believes that Ethereum should abandon the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) in support of the Open -Source Risc -risc -risc -V teaching architecture.
In the proposal, Buterin said the idea was “just as ambitious as the bundle chain efforts and was aimed at the consensus layer”, believing that the transition of RISC-V will “significantly improve the efficiency of the Ethereum execution layer, thus solving one of the major scaling bottlenecks”, while also simplifying the core code base. He stressed that the familiar account model and Opcodes “will remain exactly the same” and explained that Opcodes such as Sload, Sstore and Call will be considered as contracts for RISC -V SYSCALLS.
He added: “Old-style EVM contracts will continue to work and will be fully interoperable with the new RISC-V contracts.”
Buterin’s technical motivation focuses on demonstrating the cost of EVM execution within a zero-knowledge circuit. He points out that the concise ZK-evm measurements show that the four tasks (excluding inputs, initializing witness databases, computing state roots and executing blocks) all involve most of the offering cycles.
The last one, executed by the block only, accounts for only half of the total proof time. “Some numbers suggest that in limited cases this can lead to more than 100 times more efficient improvements,” Puddinglin wrote, suggesting that direct access to RISC-V virtual machines eliminates the overhead of compiling EVMs into RISC V to get ZK prevention. He believes that even if pre-production is a new bottleneck, this shift will still lead to “very important” performance wins.
Cardano uses RISC -V
Hoskinson’s quick agreement would bring weight as Cardano has been building around the same building. The network’s extended UTXO model is now paired with BITVMX Force, a collaborative effort to enable Cardano Dapps to leverage Bitcoin’s liquidity and decentralized fundraising activities.
BITVMX uses RISC -V to simulate Bitcoin’s general-purpose CPU, thus enabling the contract composed of Cardano’s domain-specific language (Plutus and Plow -Level Aiken) to run seamlessly on any chain. By adopting the same instruction set for its off-chain circuit, Cardano hopes to make zero-knowledge proofs more efficient and facilitate cross-chain functionality without resorting to a bridge of trust.
RISC -V’s appeal is twice as high. As an open specification, it avoids licensing constraints while providing implementers with the freedom to add extensions; at the same time, it is simpler than EVM’s tradeoff Opcode directory or Bitcoin’s Austere scripts, and its orthogonal design is more friendly to zero-knowledge proof systems. So Hoskinson’s “This is the Future” describes not only Cardano’s roadmap, but also the growing industry trends that are now echoing in Ethereum’s own research community.
It is still uncertain whether Ethereum’s highly conservative core core program will accept Buterin’s proposal. Beacon Chain Merger, Cancun/Final Elevation and Push toward Statelessness have squeezed into the Execution Arrangement Agenda. However, the fact that UTXO-based competitors and the founders of account-based smart contracts believe RISC-V is the best long-term goal suggests that the argument will not dissipate quickly. As Buterin concluded, stripping the base layer into a “well” of a thousand codes may require “this fundamental change.”
At press time, Cardano was trading at $0.64.
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