Ansgar Dietrichs

And now his time has come.

So he's been very excited.

He's now working towards this binary tree upgrade behind the scenes already.

And he's doing an amazing job there with his team.

And so actually over the next two years, I would say the biggest...

the biggest kind of individual story that we'll have in Ethereum will be this upgrade to binary trees.

So that will probably over the coming months start to become a bigger and bigger topic.

People will start hearing about it and that will then enable very efficient stateless operations or partially stateless operations for nodes.

So to recap,

Basically, starting a year or so from now, we will roll out optional proofs.

Those optional proofs will initially only be immediately effective for compressing computation and helping somewhat with IO load, but you still have to run in stateful mode.

And then we will, bit by bit, start bringing these pieces into the protocol that unlock the full potential of ZK-EVM and in parallel keep hardening the ZK-EVM security properties so that

By the time we are running out of conventional scaling means, which is, that's why all of this is so beautiful.

Like we basically have exactly like three years of scaling or like two and a half more years of scaling ahead of us of traditional scaling.

And at that point, we will be ready to just seamlessly move over to ZKBMS.

So one year from now, optional proofs, two and a half years from now-ish, plus minus, this full transition to mandatory proofs.

And then we'll have all the pieces ready to then immediately keep scaling based on ZKBMS after that.

So that's the like the full out,

And just by the way, to clarify a little bit for people that maybe think, oh, we are now gung-ho starting to release optional proofs for anyone who wants to be like a experimental, you know, like guinea pig here.

I think when we are ready to start releasing this, there will be very explicit guidance around what is this for?