Ethereum is preparing for a significant architectural upgrade that could see a zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine (zkEVM) integrated directly into its layer-1 blockchain within a year.
In a post by Sophia Gold, a developer in the Ethereum Foundation’s (EF) protocol support team, the EF data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://blog.ethereum.org/2025/07/10/realtime-proving” rel=”noopener nofollow” target=”_blank” title=”null”>outlined a path toward replacing traditional block execution with zero-knowledge proofs (ZK-proofs).
Instead of requiring every validator to re-run transaction blocks to verify them, the system will switch to validators only checking ZK-proofs, which are tiny…

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