Vitalik Buterin's Extremely Lean Chain proposal would shrink Ethereum's per-validator beacon chain state from 48 bytes to 6, enabling millions of validators

Vitalik Buterin's Extremely Lean Chain proposal would shrink Ethereum's per-validator beacon chain state from 48 bytes to 6, enabling millions of validators

Buterin outlined a two-step plan to shift Ethereum's state management to validators and replace per-epoch balance updates with ZK proofs.