Vitalik Buterin Backs EIP-8288 to Cut Quantum-Safe Privacy Costs on Ethereum

This is less about quantum resistance itself than about Ethereum's long-term execution architecture: making RISC-V canonical would touch the base layer every rollup and client team builds on, which is why a co-founder's endorsement carries weight beyond the privacy framing. The immediate audience is client developers and the teams whose roadmaps assume the current instruction set, not traders. Whether the proposal actually lands in the upgrade after Hegota, or remains a directional signal, is the open question worth watching.