《 Is Ethereum lightweight? What do the guards think about the upgraded market of Lean Ethereum Ethereum has risen! June's Ethereum seems to be a rainy day, with continuous declines. E-guards are already filling their positions while doubting their lives. But with the recent cooling of non farm payroll data and the return of interest rate cut expectations, ETH has gradually rebounded from its low point. At this critical moment, Vitalik pushed the roadmap for Lean Ethereum to the forefront, stating that 'this is the third major update for Ethereum'. In short, it means redesigning the consensus layer (CL), data layer (DL), and execution layer (EL) from first principles to make Ethereum simpler, more secure (quantum resistant), more verifiable, and more scalable. Recently, the Ethereum ecosystem has taken many actions: first, the Ethereum Foundation laid off 20% of its workforce, then the protocol layer launched the Lean Ethereum technology roadmap, and with the addition of EthLabs, a new organization founded by former core researchers of the Ethereum Foundation, Bitmine, and Sharpnink, Ethereum is now ready to work with ease? Without further ado, please take a look at the future views of the optimistic and cautious factions within the E Guard Optimist: Ethereum is refocusing one ️⃣ Sassal-eth/acc @ ssal0x | Founder of The Daily Gwei | Xhunt Global Influence Ranking: 99 Sassal's attitude is very direct, urging everyone to pay attention to @ LeanEthereum and giving it high praise. He believes that this will significantly reduce the demand for nodes (and even enable nodes to run on smartwatches in the future), greatly enhancing decentralization. Core judgment: There is nothing more bullish than this in the entire crypto ecosystem - nothing. Lean Ethereum is the ultimate form that blockchain can and should become. Both infinitely scalable and completely decentralized - only Ethereum can achieve this. two ️⃣ Ryan Sean Adams @ Ryan Adams | Co founder of Bankless | Xhunt Global Influence Ranking: 115 Ryan tends to see Lean Ethereum as a sign of Ethereum entering the next phase. In the past few years, the market's roast about ETH have focused on several points: the road map is too complex, L2 divides the value, the cost of the main network drops, and the foundation moves slowly. But Lean Ethereum has refocused on the underlying issues of Ethereum: security, scalability, privacy, quantum resistance, and the long-term credibility of the protocol itself. Core judgment: Ethereum is not without a next chapter, but the next chapter will go back from "narrative expansion" to "protocol hardening". If Merge is a major restructuring of the energy and consensus layers, then Lean Ethereum is more like a redesign of Ethereum's long-term foundation. three ️⃣ BITWU @ Bitwux | Xhunt Global Influence Ranking: 931 BITWU's viewpoint leans more towards the "historical stage theory". Ethereum has gone through several key turning points in the past: the early PoW era solved the problem of decentralized smart contracts going from 0 to 1; Merge addresses the issues of consensus mechanism and energy consumption; And Lean Ethereum may represent Ethereum entering its third round of refactoring. This round is not about continuing to stack functions on the protocol, but about doing subtraction in reverse: reducing complexity, compressing verification costs, and improving security boundaries, making the main protocol more like a "minimum trusted base" that can run for a long time. Core judgment: The keyword for Lean Ethereum is not 'more fancy', but 'more durable'. Ethereum needs to prove that it is not an increasingly bloated protocol, but a continuously evolving infrastructure. four ️⃣ Blue Fox @ lanhubiji | Xhunt Global Influence Ranking: 1506 Blue Fox is more concerned about the long-term technological roadmap behind Lean Ethereum. From Strawmap's perspective, Lean Ethereum is not just a minor fix, but a protocol reconstruction spanning the next few years: including faster L1, stronger L2 data capabilities, zkEVM/real-time proofs, quantum security resistance, and elevating privacy to a first-class goal. This means that Ethereum is not just trying to continue as an 'L2 settlement layer', but is attempting to upgrade itself into a more secure, verifiable, and suitable underlying protocol for long-term hosting of global finance and applications. Core judgment: Lean Ethereum may not immediately solve the ETH price issue, but it can answer a more fundamental question: why will Ethereum continue to exist in the next decade? five ️⃣ Gigi Wealth Pig @ gigiz_ eth | Xhunt Global Influence Ranking: 3086 Gigi's expression is closer to the mental state of E-guards: Ethereum is not lying flat now, but dismantling old burdens and starting anew. EF layoffs, budget cuts, and organizational restructuring appear to be shrinking on the surface; But if we look at it together with Lean Ethereum, EthLabs, and new ecosystem organizations, it's more like a division of labor reorganization. EF becomes lighter, focusing on protocols and neutrality; EthLabs and other external organizations undertake more research and development, institutional adoption, and ecological growth. Ethereum has evolved from being pushed by a single foundation to being pushed by multiple ETH aligned organizations. Core judgment: Ethereum is not simply laying off employees, but reallocating combat units. Before, EF used to carry everything on their backs, but now they are slimming down first, then teaming up and going into battle with light equipment. six ️⃣ Xiyu @ ohxiyu | Xhunt Global Influence Ranking: 5115 Xiyu stated that the cryptocurrency industry still needs to rely on Ethereum. Especially during the time window when ETH price rebounds from its low point, Lean Ethereum can easily become a lever for emotional repair. The market may not immediately price the technical route, but it will first price the 'narrative recovery'. For an asset that has been roast for a long time and has no new story, Lean Ethereum at least gives ETH a new thread to discuss. Core judgment: Lean Ethereum is not a single upgrade package, it is more like a protocol level overhaul. Ethereum is still expanding and redefining itself. Cautious faction: The roadmap is good, but the market waits for no one one ️⃣ Ignas @ DefiIgnas | DeFi Researcher | Xhunt Global Impact Ranking: 387 Ignas stated that if the Ethereum Foundation can deliver on time, it is bullish on ETH, while if the delivery progress of the Ethereum Foundation is delayed and the bear market continues, it may constitute a bearish sentiment. Core judgment: The Lean Ethereum roadmap is very attractive as it responds to most of the key demands previously raised by the community, but token economics issues have not yet been addressed. At present, competing projects such as Tempo and Canton are competing with Ethereum in the real world asset (RWA) and institutional adoption fields. two ️⃣ Dankrad Feist @ dankrad | Former Researcher at Ethereum Foundation | Xhunt Global Impact Ranking: 816 Dankrad's attitude is also quite cautious: he agrees with the direction, but finds the pace too slow. He believes that the idea behind Lean Ethereum is good, but if the execution time is extended to 3-4 years, it will be difficult to satisfy the market. Especially in the context of AI assisted research and development, which has significantly improved engineering efficiency, Ethereum should not continue to push for core upgrades at a slow pace like in the past. Core judgment: The biggest problem with Ethereum has never been its inability to plan, but whether it can deliver faster. E-guards need not only a vision, but also a progress bar. Summary of viewpoints from both parties Optimists believe that: Lean Ethereum is an important signal for Ethereum to refocus on the underlying protocol. It compresses the complex roadmap of the past into several key points, responding to the community's most pressing directions: scalability, privacy, quantum resistance, security, and protocol simplification. For ETH, this is a repair to the long-term narrative of decentralized computing in the world. The cautious faction believes that: There is no problem with the direction of Lean Ethereum, but the timeline of 3-4 years is too slow. The price of Ethereum is based on the reality of whether it can deliver faster, capture value for ETH, and show the market phased results, rather than a beautiful technological vision. What do you think in the end? The classic joke on Twitter is, why is Ethereum at 1700 points every year? Criticizing Ethereum for spending a lot of energy on L2 and mocking Vitalik for being like an emperor and only believing the "slander" of those around EF seems to have become politically correct. But at least this time, Ethereum is working hard to organize its formation and raise its banner. Whether July can make a good start depends on market liquidity and ETH's own performance; But from a narrative perspective, Ethereum has indeed regained a sense of home turf for a long time.