Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, whose statements and actions are closely followed by the market, made important remarks about Ethereum and Bitcoin.
At this point, Vitalik Buterin stated that they are exploring a hybrid model on Ethereum that combines the advantages of different blockchain governance approaches to increase scalability.
Buterin stated that Ethereum aims to combine the strengths of UTXO-type state, dynamic state, and models in between, rather than adopting only a single state management model in the future.
In this context, Buterin, drawing attention to the UXTO model used by Bitcoin, stated, “The Bitcoin camp deserves great praise for pioneering a significant portion of these kinds of ideas through Utreexo and others.”
Looking at current models, in Ethereum, ETH or ERC-20 token transactions increase the storage load on nodes by creating records in the network’s persistent state. In contrast, in Bitcoin’s UTXO model, spent records are removed from the system and new UTXOs are created. Thus, since there is no need to maintain old records, the storage load on validators is reduced.
However, Buterin added that his statement does not mean Ethereum will completely switch to the UTXO model. He stated that this approach is currently being evaluated as part of research and protocol design, and that it would be incorrect to interpret this statement as Ethereum abandoning its current account model anytime soon.
However, according to experts, if Ethereum’s efforts in this direction come to fruition, the goal is to achieve higher transaction capacity while keeping node operating costs under control and preserving its decentralized features.
