Vitalik Buterin Calls for Scrapping Ethereum’s ‘Most ZK-Unfriendly’ Feature
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has proposed eliminating a key blockchain function he initially invented, claiming it severely hampers the community’s scaling efforts. The modular exponentiation precompile, often called modexp, creates verification bottlenecks as much as 50 instances worse than common blocks when producing zero-knowledge proofs, based on Buterin’s current assertion on X. The proposal arrives…