Morning Edition · Saturday, June 27, 2026Published at 6:26 AM EDT · New York

Ethereum Researchers Propose a Fourth Protocol Layer Built Around Memory

A research post argues that treating state as a managed memory layer could reshape how the network scales beyond execution and data.

A post on the Ethereum Research forum proposes thinking about the protocol in terms of a fourth layer organized around memory. The author argues that early blockchain designs, including Bitcoin's, behaved less like a truly distributed compu…