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Vitalik Buterin Proposes 'Extremely Lean' Ethereum That Cuts Validator State by 95% Using ZK Proofs

Vitalik Buterin Proposes 'Extremely Lean' Ethereum That Cuts Validator State by 95% Using ZK Proofs

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Buterin's July 6 research post would shrink each validator's onchain footprint to about 6 bytes via daily ZK-STARK proofs; it is not an EIP, and he estimated roughly four years of work.

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