When a supermajority of stake is comfortable running ZK clients, we can increase the gas limit to a level that would require validators running reasonable hardware to verify proofs instead of re-executing blocks.
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Ethereum Foundation’s zkEVM rollout envisions raising the gas limit once a supermajority of validators adopt zk clients, ultimately making proof verification mandatory and replacing block re-execution.
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