EIP-8288 MAXIMALISM: VITALIK'S CASE AGAINST NEW ETHEREUM PRECOMPILES

Summary from the TLDR Crypto newsletter

Precompiles and the EVM are the wrong venue for cryptography support in Ethereum because both require data to pass through the main chain as calldata, capping throughput at roughly 8 MB/s even with PeerDAS. Vitalik Buterin's proposed solution is EIP-8288 maximalism: compute heavy cryptography client-side, generate a STARK proof, and push only the proof through the EIP-8288 recursive aggregation mechanism, so the chain records the result without seeing the underlying data or computation. This design lets developers use any signature scheme or cryptographic primitive without triggering new protocol-level precompile additions. Broader adoption would freeze Ethereum's precompile surface while keeping the base layer lean.