Ethereum 'Reinventing Itself' With Biggest Overhaul Since the Merge: Vitalik Buterin

Two weeks ago, Ethereum researchers met in Berlin to continue charting the protocol's long-term trajectory, following along discussions with client teams in Svalbard in April.

He also floated a simpler consensus with one or two-round finality, multidimensional gas pricing, and, eventually, a shift beyond the EVM toward an instruction set such as RISC-V.

Privacy, he wrote, is now a "first-class goal" rather than an add-on, factored into pieces like the mempool and the state tree, and the whole effort would rest on formal verification.