Vitalik Signals a New Path for Ethereum Cryptography With EIP-8288

TL;DR: Vitalik Buterin publicly backed the EIP-8288 proposal on October 19, 2026, to restructure cryptographic verification. The technical proposal establishes 1,000-millisecond aggregation intervals in the mempool to process signatures and STARK proofs. The official document records that hash-based signatures require between 2 and 3 kilobytes and up to 200,000 gas units for direct verification. Vitalik Buterin , co-founder of Ethereum , publicly endorsed technical proposal EIP-8288 to move the verification of complex cryptographic schemes outside the network’s virtual machine. Ultimately, precompiles and EVM are both the wrong place to put most cryptography support into Ethereum. The reason is that precompiles and EVM both operate on data that has to be included into the ethereum chain somehow, which realistically means included in a block as calldata.… https://t.co/kb3JfEQKpj — vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) October…

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