Ethereum Researcher Proposes Partial Stateless Solution to Address Network Growth

Ethereum Foundation researcher CPerezz introduced the 'Verify Only Partial Stateless' (VOPS) solution at the EthCC[9] conference. According to Foresight News, CPerezz highlighted that the continuous expansion of Ethereum's state poses a long-term threat to decentralization by increasing the storage requirements for running full nodes. VOPS nodes only need to store four fields for each externally owned account (EOA): address, nonce, balance, and code flag, eliminating the need to store complete contract code and storage trees, thus reducing node storage requirements by 25 times. The solution utilizes Verkle tree multi-proof or zkVM-generated SNARK proofs to verify state transitions and updates local account tables through 'State Diffs' without executing full block transactions. Additionally, VOPS supports low-hardware configuration nodes to maintain memory pools and connect to the FOCIL mechanism, ensuring ordinary users can participate in transaction inclusion. CPerezz believes VOPS represents an intermediate stage towards a fully stateless Ethereum, balancing node self-verification capabilities with low participation barriers.