[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  Uma Roy [@pumatheuma](/creator/twitter/pumatheuma) on x 23.4K followers Created: 2025-04-20 12:51:23 UTC New @VitalikButerin blog post on replacing the EVM with RISC-V in the long-term. I am a huge fan of this direction for Ethereum's execution layer. Today, RISC-V zkVMs like SP1 are the clear endgame solution for "ZK-ifying" Ethereum and quickly becoming the de-facto solution for ZK EVM. But as Vitalik cites in this post, our research at Succinct shows that the EVM is an extremely inefficient ISA for ZK proving. This proposal to migrate the execution layer directly to RISC-V can be viewed as migrating to "native" code for a ZK world as opposed to living in an interpreted world that imposes between 100-1000x overhead. By replacing EVM with RISC-V for the execution layer, we can up the gas limit on L1 by orders of magnitude (assuming optimization of other bottlenecks like a more zkVM friendly state merkleization format), while preserving verifiability. Link to full blog post below.  XXXXXXX engagements  **Related Topics** [succinct](/topic/succinct) [vitalik](/topic/vitalik) [zk](/topic/zk) [endgame](/topic/endgame) [longterm](/topic/longterm) [blog](/topic/blog) [roy](/topic/roy) [ethereum](/topic/ethereum) [Post Link](https://x.com/pumatheuma/status/1913938547301863630)
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Uma Roy @pumatheuma on x 23.4K followers
Created: 2025-04-20 12:51:23 UTC
New @VitalikButerin blog post on replacing the EVM with RISC-V in the long-term.
I am a huge fan of this direction for Ethereum's execution layer.
Today, RISC-V zkVMs like SP1 are the clear endgame solution for "ZK-ifying" Ethereum and quickly becoming the de-facto solution for ZK EVM. But as Vitalik cites in this post, our research at Succinct shows that the EVM is an extremely inefficient ISA for ZK proving.
This proposal to migrate the execution layer directly to RISC-V can be viewed as migrating to "native" code for a ZK world as opposed to living in an interpreted world that imposes between 100-1000x overhead. By replacing EVM with RISC-V for the execution layer, we can up the gas limit on L1 by orders of magnitude (assuming optimization of other bottlenecks like a more zkVM friendly state merkleization format), while preserving verifiability.
Link to full blog post below.
XXXXXXX engagements
Related Topics succinct vitalik zk endgame longterm blog roy ethereum