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Vitalik: Ethereum is preparing for its largest upgrade since The Merge
According to Odaily Odaily, Vitalik Buterin stated that Ethereum is preparing for its largest upgrade since The Merge. (Solid Intel)
Ethereum Ecosystem Monthly Summary: Multiple releases and upgrades were implemented, covering scaling, privacy, payments, and institutional applications.
Odaily Odaily reports that Ethereum released its monthly ecosystem summary, highlighting several releases and upgrades covering areas such as L2 scaling, privacy payments, institutional finance, development tools, and governance infrastructure. 1. In terms of scaling and infrastructure, Ronin Network completed its migration to Ethereum L2; the Arbitrum Foundation announced that LG Electronics' blockchain team is piloting on-chain advertising on its network; Base launched its first standalone upgrade, "Azul," which reportedly boosts performance to approximately 5,000 TPS and introduces several execution and consensus improvements. 2. In the payment and finance sector, Mastercard expanded its stablecoin settlement support to cover assets such as USDC and PYUSD, and supported settlement on the Ethereum mainnet and L2 network; Cash App launched the USDC function, enabling nearly 60 million users to send and receive directly on-chain; and JPMorgan Chase launched its second tokenized money market fund on Ethereum. 3. In terms of privacy and security, the Clear Signing standard was officially launched, aiming to solve the problem of "blind signature"; SEAL 911 and Wonderland jointly launched the DARC risk and compliance standard. 4. In terms of development and tools, Hardhat 3 has been released stably, supporting Solidity testing and multi-chain development; the ENS ecosystem has launched ENS8004, which converts domain names into verifiable on-chain AI agents. 5. Multiple experimental and ecological projects are being promoted simultaneously, including the LIFI Intents intent execution framework and the digitization of Aragon on-chain governance.
Vitalik Buterin launches AI deanonymization experiment: claims to have anonymously written important Ethereum documents.
PANews reported on June 22 that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated that some have recently argued that AI text analysis will make online anonymity unsustainable. In response, he revealed that he wrote a publicly available document of moderate importance to Ethereum sometime during this period, and estimated that there are approximately 200 to 2000 documents in the Ethereum ecosystem of equal or greater importance. Vitalik invited the community and AI tools to "find" this anonymous work among these documents, thus testing whether AI can anonymize authors in large-scale texts through methods such as style analysis.
Vitalik Buterin outlines Ethereum's long-term roadmap, predicting Lean Ethereum will be the third major iteration.
According to ChainCatcher, Vitalik Buterin recently reported that Ethereum researchers met in Berlin and updated the protocol's long-term roadmap (strawmap.org). Vitalik pointed out that "Lean Ethereum" is not a single upgrade, but a series of improvements to be implemented in phases over the next three to four years. Its importance is comparable to a "merge," encompassing the restructuring of almost every core module of the protocol. Key features include: Verification Mechanism: Introducing recursive STARKs to replace the existing direct re-execution method, becoming a core component of the protocol at the primary level; Quantum Security: Significantly elevated priority, all quantum-fragile components will be replaced, and the quantum-safe Blob design is underway; Consensus Layer: Decoupling the available chain from finality, achieving one to two rounds of finality, resulting in better security and lower latency; State Layer: Existing dynamic states remain unchanged, but new, more scalable states (such as UTXO storage, circular buffers, etc.) will be added. It is projected that by 2030, Ethereum will have 2 TB of dynamic states + 100 TB of new states, and the migration of applications such as ERC20 and NFTs can achieve a gas fee reduction of over 10 times; Privacy: Upgraded from an additional feature to a primary goal, permeating the design of Mempool, state trees, etc.; VM: In addition to the EVM, leanISA or RISC-V will be introduced, with the long-term goal being direct at the protocol layer.
He Yi discussion on "freezing Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin after quantum-resistant upgrade": Not original to CZ; its intention was to spark wider discussion.
According to Mars Finance, on June 29th, CZ recently mentioned in an interview that "if Satoshi Nakamoto's address remains unmoved for an extended period after Bitcoin's quantum-resistant upgrade, the relevant Bitcoins should be frozen," a statement that sparked widespread discussion in the community. In response, He Yi stated, "The threat of quantum attacks is a major point of view in the mainstream community that the Bitcoin network is unlikely to function in the long term, and how to deal with quantum attacks is currently one of the focuses of the Bitcoin community. Over the years, the Bitcoin network has remained robust despite forks; problems are solved when they arise, and entrepreneurs are inherently creating possibilities from the impossible. CZ mentioned one of the existing proposals in the Bitcoin community, specifically addressing how to respond to the threat of hacker attacks. This was simply bringing a topic discussed within the Bitcoin community into a mainstream interview."
Canton Network mainnet launches "Logical Synchronizer Upgrade," protocol upgrade enables automatic and seamless switching.
Foresight News , Canton Network announced that with the release of Canton 3.5, Logical Synchronizer Upgrades (LSUs) are now live on the mainnet. This mechanism allows the new version of the synchronizer infrastructure to run in parallel with the existing network, automatically transitioning during network switching in just seconds to minutes without requiring data migration or reload, ensuring applications continue to run normally. In terms of specific procedures, the synchronizer operator will deploy a new generation of synchronizer nodes before the upgrade and run them in parallel with the old version; validators will install the new version of the software during the upgrade window. The new software supports both the old and new protocol versions to ensure that message processing is not interrupted before and after the switch; then the on-chain governance will propose an upgrade schedule, the logical synchronizer will send a switch signal to the validators, and the validators will automatically complete the switch and verify consistency after detecting the new generation synchronizer. The application will continue to run under the same logical synchronizer identity; the old version of the infrastructure will be phased out after 30 days. Canton Network stated that it has completed four protocol version upgrades since its mainnet launch in 2024. The LSU mechanism aims to reduce the operational burden on super validators and validators, making protocol upgrades and maintenance routine operations and minimizing the impact on application developers and end-users. This mechanism will pave the way for several new features planned for the next 6 to 12 months, including token standard upgrades, BFT consensus upgrades and scaling, decentralized party management and verification services, and asset discovery capabilities.