Vitalik Buterin Acknowledges Helios’ Contribution to the Ethereum Network

• Vitalik Buterin has confirmed Helios’ importance to the Ethereum network.
• Buterin identified the remaining steps for Helios to become universally verified.
• Helios’ team considers their protocol critical for Ethereum scaling.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin called Helios a crucial development for the Ethereum network in a recent post on X. He highlighted the steps needed for the protocol to become universally verified.

According to Buterin, some crucial steps ahead of Helios’ full verification included integrating the protocol on users’ mobile and desktop wallets and moving its layer-2 configurations on-chain. He noted that Helios needs to include the specification of state-proof verification rules in its Layer-2 configurations as a starting point.

Meanwhile, the Helios blockchain developers, via one of the team members, claim that the protocol is becoming a multichain light client for Ethereum. According to the developer, light clients are fundamental to Ethereum’s scaling, with the possibility of the network hosting thousands of rollups soon.

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The developer explained that current proposals for making rollups interoperable will rely on light clients. Proposals like Optimism’s Superchain and zkSync’s Elastic Chain will depend on light clients for rollup operators to validate incoming cross-rollup messages efficiently.

The developer explained other aspects of his team’s work and how it would enhance the Ethereum network. He cited some of the team’s plans, including efforts to explore more robust verification mechanisms and to build better tooling for using Helios on the browser and mobile devices. 

Helios Milestones

The team member highlighted that Helios has implemented a light client for the OP stack based on signed sequencer preconfirmations. That allows Helios to sync on Optimism, Base, Unichain, World Chain, and anything else within the Superchain ecosystem.

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Helios developers believe achieving the full potential of crypto requires every node to efficiently verify their data regardless of the blockchain, hardware, or internet speed.