One Sentence Summary Ethereum is preparing the most radical overhaul in its history: swapping out the Ethereum Virtual Machine for the open RISC-V instruction-set architecture to escape the 50–800× performance penalty of zero-knowledge proving and to “snarkify everything” at Layer-1.Why the EVM Has Become a Dead EndZK Bottleneck Current zkEVMs don’t prove the EVM itself; they prove an interpreter that is itself compiled down to RISC-V. Vitalik calls this “double taxation”: the extra layer cos...

One Sentence Summary Ethereum is preparing the most radical overhaul in its history: swapping out the Ethereum Virtual Machine for the open RISC-V instruction-set architecture to escape the 50–800× performance penalty of zero-knowledge proving and to “snarkify everything” at Layer-1.Why the EVM Has Become a Dead EndZK Bottleneck Current zkEVMs don’t prove the EVM itself; they prove an interpreter that is itself compiled down to RISC-V. Vitalik calls this “double taxation”: the extra layer cos...

July 30, 2015: Genesis in a Berlin Office At block 1,028,201, in a modest Berlin workspace, the first “world computer” quietly booted up. Ten years on, Ethereum has evolved from fringe experiment into the backbone of thousands of applications, tens of thousands of developers, and the entire narrative of programmable money. To honor the journey, the Ethereum Foundation is running The Torch, a travelling NFT that will ultimately be burned—symbolically closing the first decade and handing the fl...

July 30, 2015: Genesis in a Berlin Office At block 1,028,201, in a modest Berlin workspace, the first “world computer” quietly booted up. Ten years on, Ethereum has evolved from fringe experiment into the backbone of thousands of applications, tens of thousands of developers, and the entire narrative of programmable money. To honor the journey, the Ethereum Foundation is running The Torch, a travelling NFT that will ultimately be burned—symbolically closing the first decade and handing the fl...