.@VitalikButerin has proposed a game-changing idea for @ethereum: replacing the EVM with RISC-V.

RISC-V is an open-source instruction set architecture (ISA) for computer processors. It's designed to be simple, modular, and extensible, making it popular in IoT, embedded systems, and data centers due to its flexibility and cost-effectiveness.

Here's why this is game-changing:

❶ Switching to RISC-V could increase prover efficiency by 100x.

❷ It eliminates intermediaries, boosts transaction speed, and simplifies modular approaches, allowing provers to interact directly with RISC-V.

❸ Developers can continue using Vyper or Solidity.

❹ Existing smart contracts will remain interoperable with RISC-V.

❺ There's better gas alignment.

The implementation would involve several approaches: Dual-VM support, an EVM interpreter in RISC-V, or an Enshrined RISC-V VM.

However, challenges such as transition complexity and optimization issues from both software and hardware sides are addressed in the proposal.

This looks interesting and could provide an edge for $ETH. I'll delve deeper to see how it will be implemented.