Ethereum — the world’s most popular smart contract platform — is a highly dynamic platform that’s always changing. One of the more radical ideas being discussed is replacing the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) with RISC-V, an open-source Instruction Set Architecture (ISA). Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is one of the biggest...
Fantom has launched Sonic, a new Layer-1 network designed to optimize decentralized finance (DeFi) through enhanced efficiency, scalability, and profitability. Sonics introduces a number of prime innovations. These range from the SonicVM virtual machine to a high-capacity transactional processing system with volumes exceeding 10,000 TPS to the Sonic Gateway—a native...
Vitalik Buterin, one of Ethereum’s cofounders, is calling for a radical restructuring of Ethereum’s underlying architecture. He proposes taking the current Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and swapping it out for the open-source RISC-V instruction set architecture. This proposal, advanced by members of the Ethereum Magicians community, is a pragmatic solution...
