Vitalik Buterin's 3 solutions for Ethereum

Vitalik Buterin shared 3 suggestions for solving some of the difficulties in Ethereum's consensus mechanism. Buterin X stated that a design that requires only 8192 signatures per slot in the system will simplify and speed up the mechanism. Buterin gave the details in a long post on the Ethereum Research forum.

As it is known, one of the most talked about issues in the PoS system is that validators need to sign a lot of signatures in order for the network to work as it should. In addition, as more validators are added to the network, the number of signatures that need to be discarded increases, and the load on the system increases.

"The minimum number of Ether can be increased"

Buterin, on the other hand, suggested 3 ways to solve this problem. The first of these was related to decentralized staking pools. The proposal was to increase the minimum number of Ether required to run a validator and allow validators to come together and pool their powers, i.e., their resources.

"Let it be divided into two layers"

Buterin's second suggestion was to have two tiers for stakers. According to Buterin, one of these layers will contain heavy requirements and one will contain light requirements, and the two layers will be treated differently at the end of the block extraction process.

"Dividing power to reduce the burden"

As a third way, the Ethereum founder proposed to use a rotating group of participants. Accordingly, a random group of validators will be selected for each slot, thus dividing the workforce and reducing the number of signatures to be made. However, Buterin noted that this will reduce the load on the network as well as increase complexity.

Published: December 28, 2023 09:54