▼Statelessness Replaces Re-Execution as the Scaling Path

Score history

Daily conviction score, 0 to 100. Higher means the thesis is more strongly corroborated.

Now 52 · -2 since Aug 27 · ranged 52 to 54

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Why the conviction moved

• Aug 25
  Strengthened +6

  EIP-8390 would delete Ethereum's in-protocol light-client mechanism outright in favour of off-chain zero-knowledge finality proofs, breaking every deployed Altair light client at the fork. Verification duty moves from a consensus-embedded committee to proving infrastructure, exactly the shift the thesis tracks — and the hard break in deployed clients shows the transition is being made without a compatibility path.

• Aug 23
  Strengthened +5

  A developer put proof-based Bitcoin block verification at 27 milliseconds per block, with proofs now covering blocks 1 through 1,789 and an estimated 17 GPU years to prove the full chain. The verification side is already cheap enough to be trivial for any node; the binding constraint has moved entirely to proving cost, which is the engineering contest this thesis says scaling becomes.

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Source trail

• Supporting · August 25, 2026

  Ethereum Proposal Would Retire the Sync Committee and Cut About 33,800 ETH of Annual Issuance

  EIP-8390 would delete Ethereum's in-protocol light-client mechanism outright in favour of off-chain zero-knowledge finality proofs, breaking every deployed Altair light client at the fork. Verification duty moves from a consensus-embedded committee to proving infrastructure, exactly the shift the thesis tracks — and the hard break in deployed clients shows the transition is being made without a compatibility path.

  CryptoSlate

• Supporting · August 23, 2026

  A Developer Puts Bitcoin Block Verification at 27 Milliseconds and the Full Chain at 17 GPU Years

  A developer put proof-based Bitcoin block verification at 27 milliseconds per block, with proofs now covering blocks 1 through 1,789 and an estimated 17 GPU years to prove the full chain. The verification side is already cheap enough to be trivial for any node; the binding constraint has moved entirely to proving cost, which is the engineering contest this thesis says scaling becomes.

  CryptoSlate