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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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.
On April 11, the Ethereum co-founder unveiled a privacy roadmap for the network. In the post, Buterin proposed having features that anonymize user transactions. Buterin said the features should be ‘ideally turned on by default.’
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