Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, proposed to replace the current language of the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) contract with the architecture of the RISC-V instructions to improve the speed and efficiency of the Ethereum network layer.

Barein’s on April 20 application Several long -term bottlenecks are presented for scaling the Ethereum network, including stable downloading of data availability samples, ensuring that the production of blocks remains competitive, and zero EVM knowledge.

The co-founder of Ethereum argued that the implementation of RISC-V in clever contracts would maintain competitive production markets and improves the efficiency of zero knowledge function for the execution layer. Buterin wrote:

“The effort of the beam chain is very promising to significantly simplify the consensus layer of Ethereum, but for the layer to see similar profits, this kind of radical change can be the only real path.”

The proposal emphasizes the fight of Network Ethereum to improve bandwidth and will remain competitive with monolithic chains of modern generation blocks, such as Solana and Sui Networks at a time when investors lose confidence in the original blockchain of an clever contract.

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Ethereum’s misfortunes and the collapse of the ether price

Ethereum stain fees, fees for transactions charged from the Layer-2 Ethereum scaling net Etherscan.

Using current ether prices, 3.18 ETH collected for BLOB fees during this period was about USD 5,000.

In April 2025, the Ethereum charges fell to the lowest levels from 2020, average around USD 0.16 per transaction.

According to To the marketing director of Santiment, Brian Quinlivan, a dramatic reduction in fees is due to the fact that fewer users send transactions on the base layer of Ethereum, instead deciding to employ clever contracts or one of many solutions in scaling of layer 2 Ethereum.

The Ethereum Networks Layers 2 were described as a double -edged sword, which radically reduced the costs of transactions on the basic layer, but also cannibalized the revenues of the Ethereum base layer.

Fears of generating revenues on the basic layer and corrosive effects of scaling solutions of layer 2 on the Ethereum market share have led the price of ether to historical minima and can reduce ether prices to around USD 1100, if investors trust is still disappearing.

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