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What Vitalik Wants for Ethereum's Base Layer

The Ethereum community is clamoring for network improvements. Vitalik has ideas.
What Vitalik Wants for Ethereum's Base Layer
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Off the back of the Ethereum Foundation’s recent announcements about scaling the L1, Vitalik published a post on Friday titled “Simplifying the L1,” laying out how Ethereum can streamline and harden its base layer for the long haul.

To Vitalik, scalability isn’t enough — Ethereum must also stay understandable, maintainable, and secure if it’s to become “the platform that stores civilization's assets and records.” He argues it’s time to strip away bloat, rethink core systems, and replace the EVM with something simpler. The goal: an Ethereum nearly as simple as Bitcoin within five years.

Here’s the tl;dr — covering the core ideas on simplifying consensus, execution, and more. 👇

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David Christopher

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David is a writer/analyst at Bankless. Prior to joining Bankless, he worked for a series of early-stage crypto startups and on grants from the Ethereum, Solana, and Urbit Foundations. He graduated from Skidmore College in New York. He currently lives in the Midwest and enjoys NFTs, but no longer participates in them.

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