News list for "modexp"

Vitalik Buterin wrote on the X platform, "As the original inventor of the modexp precompiled contract, I am deeply ashamed. But modexp does drag down Ethereum to a large extent. On the one hand, it is inefficient, and on the other hand, its complexity puts our ecosystem at risk of a large number of consensus failures. We can certainly invest a lot of effort in optimizing (both at the original execution level and at the verification level) this feature that only 0.01% of people are using, but in ...

2025-11-04 02:49:20