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- Researcher Justin Drake has proposed an guiding principle he calls “Lean Ethereum.”
- Slimming the blockchain’s codebase could lead to security and performance improvements, he said.
- The proposal was inspired, in part, by a trademark dispute.
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Last week Ethereum turned 10, and now the world’s second-most valuable blockchain must cut the baby fat, argues Justin Drake, an Ethereum Foundation researcher.
His vision, named Lean Ethereum, aims to streamline the blockchain’s bloated code, and shield it from future encryption-smashing quantum computers.
The diet could also unlock performance improvements, including boosting transaction throughput, Drake said.
“Lean Ethereum is a generational oath to keep Ethereum online no matter what — to scale it without compromise,” he wrote.
At this stage, it’s just a proposal. But it…
