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Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin's recent proposal of 'RISC-V' has attracted the attention of the crypto community and sparked debates among core ecosystem developers. For most users, it is difficult to understand how RISC-V can reform Ethereum, and what kind of progress Buterin's proposal can bring to Ethereum.

Unlike other PoS chains, Ethereum's client is composed of two parts: the 'consensus layer' and the 'execution layer.' The consensus layer is responsible for packaging staking votes, while the execution layer handles transactions. Therefore, the code that executes smart contracts is actually run by the execution layer client on node computers, which runs the code by fetching transaction broadcasts and records the results on the public ledger based on the results of the 'consensus layer' votes.