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Morning Edition · Thursday, October 15, 2026Published at 1:43 AM EDT · New York
Ethereum Researcher Proposes Splitting Block Execution Proofs So Proving Can Begin Before State Is Known
A separate 15-month study of Ethereum block fees was corrected on publication day after a base-fee decoding error, and layer-2 value fell on most major networks this week.
Csaba Kiraly, an Ethereum researcher, has posted a design called "Rapidblocks with split proofs" to the Ethereum Research forum. It divides a block's execution proof into three parts. The first proves that the block's transactions, run on t…
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Ethereum Moves Validation to Proofs
Ethereum's roadmap will keep shifting block validation from re-execution to zero-knowledge proofs, making proving speed and proof-system diversity the central constraints on layer-1 scaling and on the value of proving infrastructure.
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