Ansgar Dietrichs

So ZKVM is this fundamental insight that what you can do is you can basically allow nodes to verify that a block followed all the rules without having to re-execute the block.

It's a very non-intuitive thing, right?

A blockchain by its nature is a very symmetrical thing.

Every node basically does the same thing.

Of course, you have block producers, but then every node kind of has to download, re-execute.

You're duplicating the effort across the network.

And now you're jumping to this like...

Through this very fancy cryptography, you're jumping into this world where you still have the same effort to build a block, but then verification in a way is effortless.

It has this magical compression element to it.

I personally share your excitement on this topic.

I really think that it's one of those changes that are really Ethereum at its best.

It's one of those...

really ambitious technical projects that I think Ethereum is in a unique position to deliver.

It will have a huge impact primarily through scaling, but in many ways, I'm sure we'll talk about all of this.

And I really think it's something we can look forward to, we can be proud of.

And yeah, I'm excited to talk about the details.

I will say, by the way, you said hard fork.

And the interesting thing here is like similar to if you think back at the merge, right?

We had first the launch of the beacon chain, which was one moment in time.

And then we later on had the mergers, like two separate moments in time.