On April 20, Vitalik Buterin shared a proposal on the Ethereum Magicians forum where he advocated for switching the Ethereum Virtual Machine in favor of RISC-V, an open-source instruction set architecture.
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Ethereum Foundation new co-executive responds to Vitalik Buterin’s latest RISC-V proposal
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Vitalik Buterin introduced a set of proposals in April 2025 that advocate replacing Ethereum’s EVM with the RISC-V instruction set and advancing zkVMs and privacy-enhancing features to boost long-term scalability and user anonymity.
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