Vitalik Buterin Pushes Recursive STARK Aggregation for Ethereum's I-Star Upgrade
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has proposed a new solution to address the looming security challenge of post-quantum cryptography on Ethereum. According to Buterin, EIP-8288 can make recursive STARK aggregation for cryptographic signatures and proofs much cheaper to implement.
The proposal suggests that transactions would use lightweight dependency frames containing information about signatures or proofs, which could then be aggregated into a single recursive STARK by the mempool. This approach could significantly reduce the cost of quantum-safe applications, with Buterin estimating that private transactions could fall from 10 million gas to the low tens of thousands.
The proposed design would allow new signature and proof schemes to be supported without requiring separate EVM changes for each scheme. However, EIP-8288 remains a draft proposal and has not been implemented in Ethereum's live protocol.