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Vitalik Buterin’s proposal to replace the EVM with RISC-V confirms that Solidity and Vyper will remain the primary smart contract languages, adapted to compile directly to RISC-V instead of EVM bytecode.

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.

Vitalik Buterin assures that existing EVM-based smart contracts will remain fully functional and interoperable with new RISC-V-based contracts, preserving backward compatibility during Ethereum’s proposed transition.

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