Vitalik responds to comments about Ethereum's "slow death": Plans four major changes to upgrade the system.

Recently, community user dasha proposed that "the existing Ethereum should gradually die out through fragmentation (such as L2, application chains), and a pure cyberpunk chain should be rebuilt from scratch based on RISC-V." Vitalik Buterin responded by stating that he rejects the idea of ​​a "slow death" for the existing Ethereum, instead planning to build a "cypherpunk-inspired, non-ugly Ethereum" as a tightly coupled extension of the current system, achieving seamless interoperability, and migrating the existing system via smart contracts within 5 years. Vitalik emphasized that this could be achieved through incremental upgrades similar to the previous "merge" upgrade, followed by four major changes, including state tree optimization, Lean consensus, ZK-EVM verification, and VM changes, to enhance censorship resistance, ZK friendliness, and simplicity.