Vitalik Buterin Pushes Ethereum Plan to Slash Quantum-Safe Privacy Costs
What Decrypt reports, why it matters and what remains unconfirmed.
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What Decrypt reports
Buterin wants EIP-8288 in I-star, the upgrade after Hegota, and adopting it would make RISC-V Ethereum's canonical instruction set.
The immediate significance
The report describes a network, software or product development. Its significance depends on whether the change is specified, deployed and used—not only proposed or described in a headline.
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What remains unknown
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Buterin wants EIP-8288 in I-star, the upgrade after Hegota, and adopting it would make RISC-V Ethereum's canonical instruction set.
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