ChainCatcher news, Bankless founder David Hoffman posted on social media, "Ethereum development has prioritized L2 execution for over 2 years. This has come at the expense of L1 execution. L1 execution is lagging behind Moore's Law, while L2 has gained undue growth and valuation subsidies from L1. Therefore, we should re-establish the priority of L1 execution work. I agree with @MaxResnick1 that the hardware requirements for L1 should be 'the latest 2 generations of Macbook Pro', which aligns perfectly with the social contract of individual stakers. This would increase the accessibility of Ethereum L1 to over 10 times the users, and at a low cost.The argument against this is: the Ethereum ecosystem needs to reorganize around fewer synchronous composability—growing L1 execution will reduce the urgency to solve this problem. An rollup-centric Ethereum is the right roadmap—let's face the challenges head-on."

ChainCatcher news, Ethereum staking infrastructure SSV.Network has announced a roadmap aimed at significantly reducing the hardware requirements for operating over 20,000 validators within four months.The SSV Labs team stated that their goal is to reduce hardware requirements by 75-90% over the next 12 months, with the roadmap divided into several phases covering cryptography, consensus, and network optimization.SSV.Network also addresses the issue of network inefficiency by optimizing its network topology. By strategically mapping validators to topics based on cluster affiliations, the platform aims to minimize the burden on individual operators while maintaining network robustness. Message processing can be reduced by 98%.

ChainCatcher message, zkSync Developers announced on social media that they will release the zkSync Node Beta version, which features a more streamlined setup process and lower hardware requirements. The zkSync node is a read-only replica of the main node, and anyone can run it.It is reported that this version will significantly improve developer experience features, allowing for a one-line Docker setup, synchronization with the main node, and operation on consumer-grade hardware.In addition, zkSync Developers stated that they are developing a pruning feature to reduce the storage space requirements of the zkSync Node Beta. In the long run, as part of decentralized work, this will allow the zkSync Node to act as a sorter and validator.