Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin thinks artificial intelligence (AI) could “significantly” help the top smart contract platform.
Buterin says on the social media platform X he’s excited about the potential for AI-assisted formal verification of code and bug finding.
“Right now Ethereum’s biggest technical risk probably is bugs in code, and anything that could significantly change the game on that would be amazing.”
The famous Ethereum co-founder says he’s also excited about Verkle Trees, a data structure that can be used to upgrade Ethereum nodes.
“They will enable stateless validator clients, which can allow staking nodes to run with near-zero hard disk space and sync nearly instantly – far better solo staking UX (user experience). Also good for user-facing light clients.”
Verkle trees are designed to reduce the minimum hardware requirements for running an Ethereum node, which will improve the project’s decentralization, according to the upgrade’s website. The website also notes that the trees will unlock new types of functionality and could have some potential scaling benefits.
Ethereum.org notes that Verkle tree testnets are currently up and running but require substantial updates to clients that are still outstanding.
ETH is trading at $2,916 at time of writing. The second-ranked crypto asset by market cap is up over 1% in the past 24 hours.
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