Key Points
- Ethereum Foundation is abandoning Poseidon
- Moving towards SHA or BLAKE3 hashes
- Recent developments in proof systems changed Poseidon's performance tradeoff
By the Numbers
8 years82,000 BLAKE3 compressions
Ethereum researcher Justin Drake announced that the Ethereum Foundation is abandoning Poseidon in future layer-1 designs and is looking to move towards SHA or BLAKE3 hashes. This decision is related to recent developments in proof systems that have changed Poseidon's performance tradeoff.
Ethereum's security roadmap defines the simplification of the protocol as a way to reduce the attack surface of the network.
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- Why is Ethereum abandoning Poseidon?
- Due to recent developments in proof systems that have changed Poseidon's performance tradeoff.
- What are SHA or BLAKE3 hashes?
- Hash functions used in cryptography.
- What is Ethereum's security roadmap?
- A document that defines Ethereum's future security plans and goals.
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