Recently, the EF published its new roadmap. Justin Drake also gave a virtual presentation at the Ethereum Engineering Group called Ethereum’s Lean Execution roadmap 2026 to 2030.
While some parts of this have been discussed elsewhere, it builds on recent progress in SNARK proving times of RISC-V code execution, as shown by Ethproofs. This could allow stateless clients like browser tabs or smartwatches to become significantly more trustless.
Justin also talked about the idea of exposing the RISC-V ISA to smart contracts as an abstraction layer below the EVM. That could presumably simplify porting some of our tech, if parts of Zebra could just be compiled to RISC-V onto Ethereum.
Of course, the main reason Ethereum is making these changes is to compete with Solana on L1 scalability, and to move to post-quantum cryptography throughout their stack. The ecosystem around us keeps moving fast. Let’s accelerate.
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