Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum has long advocated replacing the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) with RISC-V to improve blockchain efficiency, a vision that aligns with ZKsync’s Airbender architecture

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The new prover, which is based on RISC-V, a newer programming framework that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has suggested to replace the current EVM with.

The new prover, which is an open-sourced zero-knowledge virtual machine (zkVM), is based on RISC-V, a newer programming framework that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has suggested to replace the current EVM, because it will make the blockchain more efficient.