Vitalik Buterin argues that replacing the EVM with RISC-V could dramatically improve the performance of zero-knowledge proving systems on Ethereum, potentially achieving 50x to 100x efficiency gains in execution layer proofs.

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Buterin provides numbers suggesting that implementing the proposal could lead to efficiency gains of 100x.

Buterin's post argues that in order to boost performance of Ethereum's execution layer, the network needs to boost the efficiency of the EVM proving process.