Ethereum’s Vitalik backs Bitcoin-inspired scaling model

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin credited Bitcoin developers on Aug. 16 for work on Utreexo while describing a proposed Ethereum scaling direction that could combine UTXO-style state, conventional dynamic state and models between the two. Summary Vitalik Buterin credited Bitcoin developers for Utreexo while outlining Ethereum’s proposed hybrid state scaling strategy. Ethereum researcher Toni Wahrstätter proposed native UTXOs that could cut payment state usage roughly 99.8%. The proposal keeps Ethereum accounts while moving simple one-shot payments into a lighter UTXO-style model. EIP-8141 Frame Transactions, required by the UTXO design, is currently only considered for Hegotá inclusion. Vitalik’s recursive-STARK mempool proposal limits proof bandwidth overhead rather than proving unlimited Ethereum transaction throughput. In an X post, Buterin called it the “current proposed Ethereum scaling strategy,” making clear that the architecture remains under development. Buterin said the goal is to let most Ethereum activity scale much further without sacrificing decentralization, censorship resistance or ease of running nodes. His comments do not mean Ethereum has decided to replace it...