Yesterday, Ethereum turned 10. today, Lean Ethereum It will be revealed as a vision and personal mission over the next decade.
We stand at the dawn of a new era. Millions of TP. Quantum enemy. How does Ethereum marry uncompromising security, decentralization and extreme performance?
tldr: Next-generation encryption is the heart of gaining both crime and defense.
Disclaimer: This is Drake Take™ for a wide audience. A deep technical dive continues with hash-based posthash signatures and olfactory senses. Opinions of sound diversity across the Protocol, EF, and the broader Ethereum community are expected and welcome. It strengthens us.
Defense – Fort Mode
Ethereum is special. 100% uptime Since Genesis. Unparalleled client diversity. 130B USD in economic security (35.7m ETH stain x 3.7k USD) – 1t USD immediately.
Ethereum is ready to become rock The Internet of Valuesecured for hundreds of trillions, and even centuries over decades.
Ethereum must survive anything: nation, quantum computers. Anything that comes. I’ll call it Fort Mode. If the internet is up, Ethereum is up. If the world is online, the world is on-chain.
Attack – Beast Mode
Ethereum is hungry. “Scale L1, Scale blob” is a strategic urgency within the protocol cluster of EF. Expect low performance improvements over the next 6-12 months.
Long term? Think of the Gigagas L1 and the Teragas L2. I’ll call it Beast Mode.
- 1 gigaga/sec for L1:10k TPS, ambitious vertical scale
- 1 teragas/sec for L2: 10m TPS, vast horizontal scale
Scale vs. decentralization? Why not both? The month’s math we need is now tamed:
- Real-time ZKVMS For lean execution
- Data availability sampling (DAS) For lean data
Delicious Cherries on top: Complete chain verification across all browsers, wallets and phones.
Lean Upgrade
Lean Ethereum offers bold upgrades across all three L1 sublayers.
- Lean Consensus teeth Beacon Chain 2.0: It is enhanced for ultimate security and decentralization, and is final in just a few seconds. Previously it was branded as a “beam chain.”
- Lean data teeth Blob 2.0: Granular blobsizing for post-mass blobs and calderta-like developer experiences
- Run without waste teeth EVM 2.0: Minimal Snark-friendly instruction set (RISC-V; pronounced “Risk 5”), improves performance while maintaining EVM compatibility and its network effect
The consensus layer (CL), data layer (DL), and execution layer (EL) have been rethinked from the first principle. Together, unlock Fort Mode and Beast Mode.
the goal: Abundance of performance under the constraints of non-negotiable continuity, maximum hardness, and refreshing simplicity.
Lean encryption
Hash-based encryption has emerged as the ideal foundation for Lean Ethereum. It provides a compelling, unified answer to two megatrends that rebuild the ecosystem.
- Explosives Increased sense of smell
- It’s approaching Quantum threat
Imagine the most lean encrypted brick – a hash function.
- cl: Hash-based aggregation signatures Upgrade your BLS signature
- DL: Hash-based DAS commitments Upgrade your KZG commitment
- Elle: Hash-based real-time ZKVMS Upgrade EVM Reconsideration
Encrypted gems for Lean CL, Lean DL, and Lean EL.
Leancraft
Lean Ethereum is more than a blueprint for hardening and scaling Ethereum. It’s not just doubled security, decentralisation and cutting-edge encryption. It’s aesthetics. Art form. Craft. Think of Giro Sushi dreams. When we can go the extra distance, we do.
Minimalism. Modularity. Encapsulated complexity. Formal verification. Proven security. Proven optimality. These are subtle yet important technical considerations. Stay tuned for postquanthum encryption posts that make them explicit.
Lean Legacy
After a decade of great years, Lean Ethereum is a generational vow. To keep Ethereum online no matter what. Scaling without compromise. To make it suitable for the next people.
This is about legacy. We are builders and missionaries. We are Ethereum. I hope you would you like to join.
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