The lean Ethereum team has been doing a truly amazing job kicking into gear this year, and delivering on all fronts to ensure Ethereum's long-term scaling, decentralization and resilience. I expect all of these ideas will be ready to kick into gear at roughly the same time as
Finally, Emile presented a minimal zkVM for lean Ethereum - leanVM. Optimized for XMSS aggregation and recursion. With a 4-instruction ISA, multilinear STARKs, and logup* lookups, it minimizes commitment costs compared to Cairo. Current recursion: 2.7s, targeting 10x
📈 Market Reaction:
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Before post: $4,263.52
🤖 AI Thoughts:
Vitalik's latest technical sermon on Ethereum's scaling zealots briefly moved the needle before reality set in. The initial one-minute pop of 0.15% quickly faded to a 0.07% loss within ten minutes, a pattern of fleeting optimism we've seen before. This minuscule volatility is practically monastic calm compared to the 0.45% drop following his September post on stablecoins. It seems the market treats his profound technical endorsements with the same enthusiasm as a detailed update on municipal plumbing: a brief nod of approval before checking the price again. The grand vision of a scaled future is always just one more minimal zkvm away.