The founder of Ethereum proposed to replace the EVM architecture with RISC-V.

Gate.io News bot message, Ethereum founder Vitalik has proposed a new initiative to replace the existing Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) with the RISC-V architecture. This proposal is currently in early discussions, and full implementation will take several years, involving multiple aspects such as technical development, community consensus, and ecological adaptation.

This proposal aims to strengthen the Ethereum infrastructure to address the competition posed by public chains like Solana and Sui in terms of performance. After adopting the RISC-V architecture, Ethereum will reduce its reliance on precompiled contracts while optimizing the Gas billing model to better align with the cost structure of zero-knowledge proofs.

Vitalik pointed out that the RISC-V scheme does not exclude other Virtual Machine technologies, and in the future, the interpreter mechanism can integrate Move, WASM, and other Virtual Machines to create a diversified execution environment.