The current ETH trading modeAnd the ETH trading mode after ZKization It becomes a direct transaction for the user, and then the user provides proof of payment themselves, and finally the node only needs to verify this proof. As we all know, one of the major features of ZK is its very fast verification speed, without the need for constant consensus. In that case, the concurrency immediately increased. Anything like 'making Ethereum the world's largest ZK organization' is virtual, while the actual increase in TPS by tens or even hundreds of times is the real thing. Additionally, it should be noted that this upgrade is for zkEVM. It is a transitional phase parallel to the current EVM, which is a mid-term expedient measure. And comprehensive ZKization requires zkVM. The difference of one letter actually represents different stages, and the entire schedule is roughly as follows: Short term (within 1 year): Optional zkEVM for block verification on L1, starting with ZK clients (such as Zeth). Mid term: Increase the upper limit of fuel costs, establish zkVM, and combine mixed models with re execution and proof. Long term: Fully transition to RISC-V or similar architecture, native zk rollups, and ZK default consensus. PS: Of course, I am not so optimistic about the RISC-V architecture. We have to do a little science popularization here, what exactly is RISC-V? I don't want to stack terms, but it is an open-source instruction set architecture that benchmarks against Intel or AMD CPUs, which is a very, very low-level thing. Simply understanding it as a more powerful, advanced, and lower level EVM is enough. But RISC-V is still very slow at the moment, although it has great potential, it cannot be easily broken with Intel AMD. Returning to the main topic. This zkEVM upgrade is still a 'first hard node' 😂。 In addition to running the normal execution layer client (old EVM), nodes can also freely choose whether to run a ZK version of the execution layer client (new zkEVM), so that both things run together to make everyone's transition smoother. To gradually familiarize users and developers with the existence of zkEVM. Ultimately, we will gradually move towards complete ZKization of Ethereum, achieving a decentralized and secure Ethereum L1 with excellent performance.