以太坊的领先研究人员和开发人员普遍欢迎 Vitalik Buterin 更新的“精益以太坊”路线图,称赞其对隐私和抗量子密码学的关注是网络的长期方向。
虽然社区基本上同意 Buterin 的愿景,但几位知名人士认为拟议的三到四年时间表太慢,并敦促网络加速发展。
以太坊在未来几年重塑自身的雄心勃勃的计划得到了许多网络研究人员的热烈欢迎,尽管一些人表示最大的挑战不是决定构建什么,而是它能以多快的速度发生。
上周早些时候,以太坊联合创始人 Vitalik Buterin 发布了“精益以太坊”草图的更新版本,这是一个长期愿景,将彻底改革区块链的几乎每个主要部分。该草图最初于二月份发布。 Buterin 的最新提案呼吁进行彻底的改变,旨在使以太坊更快、运行成本更低、更加私密并抵御量子计算机等未来威胁。
虽然路线图距离成为现实还需要数年时间,但早期反应表明许多以太坊领先的开发人员都同意其方向。
StarkWare 联合创始人 Eli Ben-Sasson 称该路线图“有很多好的东西,但也有一些不清楚的地方,但仍然存在一些问题”。
他赞扬以太坊决定将递归 STARK(一种旨在使网络更容易验证的加密技术)置于其未来的中心,并表示这标志着与早年相比的重大转变,当时以太坊社区的许多人对该技术持怀疑态度。
Ben-Sasson 还对 Buterin 将隐私和抗量子密码学作为首要任务的决定表示欢迎。
“量子安全——非常好,”他在 X 上写道,“很高兴看到这是一个高度优先的事项。”
但他认为以太坊不应该等待三到四年才能实现这一目标。
“‘3-4 年’因为时间线太长了,”本-萨森说。 “特别是对于量子准备。”
前以太坊基金会研究员 Dankrad Feist 也表达了类似的语气。 Feist 在 X 上表示,该路线图的愿景“非常酷”,近乎即时的交易终结性和大幅提高的吞吐量等功能可以改变网络。
然而,他最关心的是速度。 “但是 3 到 4 年的时间非常慢,”费斯特写道。 “我认为我们应该雄心勃勃,并在大约一年内完成它。”
Feist 甚至表示,人工智能工具(包括大型语言模型)的最新进展可能有助于加速开发。
并非所有讨论都集中在时间上。一些研究人员深入研究了路线图的技术细节。
Ben-Sasson 对 Buterin 引入新型区块链“状态”的提议之一提出质疑,该“状态”本质上是以太坊存储的有关账户、余额和智能合约的数据。
“新型国家:这意味着什么?谁会受到它的影响?”他问道,要求更多解释。
与此同时,以太坊基金会研究员 Barnabé Monnot 重点关注了路线图与 2 月份发布的早期版本相比有何变化。
蒙诺指出,最大的差异之一是,一些旨在加速区块生产的升级已被进一步推迟,而以太坊共识系统的变化则提前了路线图。他还指出删除了之前提出的几个功能,他说这些变化最终可以帮助网络实现更快的交易最终确定和更强的审查阻力。
总的来说,这些反应表明以太坊的研究社区在网络下一步的发展方向上基本上是一致的。争论不再是质疑路线图的核心思想——例如更好的隐私、更强大的加密技术和扩展区块链的新方法——而是越来越多地涉及执行。
对于以太坊的许多顶尖研究人员来说,目的地看起来是正确的。现在的问题是网络是否能够足够快地到达那里。
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Ethereum's leading researchers and developers have broadly welcomed Vitalik Buterin's updated "Lean Ethereum" roadmap, praising its focus on privacy and quantum-resistant cryptography as the network's long-term direction.
While the community largely agrees with Buterin's vision, several prominent figures argued the proposed three-to-four-year timeline is too slow and urged the network to accelerate development.
Ethereum's ambitious plan to reinvent itself over the next several years is getting an enthusiastic reception from many of the network's researchers, though several say the biggest challenge won't be deciding what to build, but how quickly it can happen.
Earlier last week, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published an updated version of the "Lean Ethereum" strawmap, a long-term vision that would overhaul nearly every major part of the blockchain. The strawmap was originally published in February. Buterin's updated proposal calls for sweeping changes aimed at making Ethereum faster, cheaper to run, more private and resistant to future threats such as quantum computers.
While the roadmap is still years away from becoming reality, early reactions suggest many of Ethereum's leading developers agree with its direction.
Eli Ben-Sasson, co-founder of StarkWare, called the roadmap "many good things, a few unclear things, still a few problems."
He praised Ethereum's decision to put recursive STARKs, a cryptographic technique designed to make the network much easier to verify, at the center of its future, saying it marked a major shift from earlier years when much of the Ethereum community was skeptical of the technology.
Ben-Sasson also welcomed Buterin's decision to make privacy and quantum-resistant cryptography top priorities.
"Quantum safety—excellent," he wrote on X. "Glad to see this as a high priority."
But he argued Ethereum shouldn't wait three to four years to get there.
"'3-4 years' as the timeline is way too long," Ben-Sasson said. "Especially for quantum readiness."
Former Ethereum Foundation researcher Dankrad Feist struck a similar tone. Calling the roadmap's vision "really cool," Feist said on X that features like near-instant transaction finality and dramatically higher throughput could transform the network.
His biggest concern, however, was speed. "But 3-4 years is very slow," Feist wrote. "I think we should be ambitious and get it done in ~1 year."
Feist even suggested recent advances in AI tools, including large language models, could help accelerate development.
Not every discussion centered on timing. Some researchers dug into the roadmap's technical details.
Ben-Sasson questioned one of Buterin's proposals to introduce new types of blockchain "state,” essentially the data Ethereum stores about accounts, balances and smart contracts.
"New kinds of state: what does that mean? Who is affected by it?" he asked, calling for more explanation.
Meanwhile, Ethereum Foundation researcher Barnabé Monnot focused on how the roadmap had changed from an earlier version released in February.
Among the biggest differences, Monnot noted that some upgrades designed to speed up block production had been pushed further into the future, while changes to Ethereum's consensus system had moved up the roadmap. He also pointed to the removal of several previously proposed features, changes he said could ultimately help the network achieve faster transaction finality and stronger censorship resistance.
Taken together, the reactions suggest Ethereum's research community is largely aligned on where the network should head next. Rather than questioning the roadmap's core ideas — such as better privacy, stronger cryptography and new ways to scale the blockchain — the debate is increasingly about execution.
For many of Ethereum's top researchers, the destination looks right. The question now is whether the network can get there fast enough.
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