Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake has proposed “Lean Ethereum,” a plan to make the layer-1 smart contract network quantum-secure, while also simplifying Ethereum’s tech stack, which includes the consensus layer, data layer and execution layer.
The researcher data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://blog.ethereum.org/2025/07/31/lean-ethereum” rel=”noopener nofollow” target=”_blank” title=”null”>proposed zero-knowledge powered virtual machines, a way of verifying data onchain without revealing the content of that data, to quantum-proof the execution layer and strengthen security.
Drake called for data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://cointelegraph.com/news/zk-rollups-need-data-availability-says-polygon-co-founder” title=”null”>data availability sampling as a way of reducing the storage requirements for…

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