POSSIBLE FUTURES OF THE ETHEREUM PROTOCOL, PART 4: THE VERGE

Summary from the TLDR Crypto newsletter

Ethereum's Verge portion of the roadmap aims to drastically reduce node operation requirements, enabling full verification on lightweight devices like mobile phones and smartwatches. It accomplishes this optimization through stateless verification and validity proofs. Key decisions remain, like how to consider quantum resistance versus performance. In this post, Vitalik Buterins outlines plans for implementing validity proofs for EVM execution and consensus and making a much more cryptographically robust protocol.