Buterin Targets Transaction Optimization with New Ethereum Concept

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has been working on a major evolution of Ethereum's transactions. Recent research has led to a clearer separation between what transactions do and what must be proven before they can do it.

Buterin outlined his vision, emphasizing the distinction between 'actions' and 'dependencies.' An action is an effect that a transaction has, while dependencies are properties that make them particularly suitable for optimization.

This separation could allow Ethereum developers to optimize transactions in fundamentally different ways. Validation and execution are traditionally intertwined, but Buterin argues that dependencies can be processed in parallel and checked once by the mempool, reducing the need for repeated checks by every validator.