Vitalik Buterin floats swapping Ethereum’s EVM for RISC-V to boost scalability
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, in a new blog post on the Ethereum Magicians forum, floated a "radical" long-term proposal for the blockchain network's execution layer: replacing the Ethereum Virtual Machine's (EVM) bytecode with the open-source RISC-V architecture. "The beam chain effort holds…