TechFlow news — On October 24, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin posted on social media that selectively and deeply reducing gas fees could increase Ethereum's transactions per second (TPS) by 1.5 times without affecting key performance metrics. The specific proposals include:
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Reducing the gas cost of all Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) opcodes currently in the 2–5 range to 1, and those in the 6–10 range to 2.
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Reducing the gas cost of log operations by a factor of four.
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Lowering the gas cost of precompiles, while preserving those scheduled for deprecation.
Vitalik emphasized that these optimizations could significantly boost TPS without worsening critical worst-case metrics such as calldata size and IO.
In a follow-up discussion, Vitalik added: "We need to reduce the number of precompiles. First implement EOF (Ethereum Object Format), then SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) and EVMMAX, and afterward replace half of the existing precompiles with bytecode. This approach is more forward-looking."
