[Vitalik: General-purpose STARK performance has exceeded early expectations, future computational costs may drop to double digits] Odaily Planet Daily News - Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated that the Poseidon hash function series, after years of development, has generated significant practical value in Ethereum and other fields and will continue to play a role in the coming years. Modern privacy protocols can quickly generate SNARK proofs on the client side, and Poseidon is one of the key reasons for this. Vitalik pointed out that today, general-purpose STARKs have achieved extremely high performance, with the proof costs for almost any batch computation reduced to triple-digit levels, and in the future, they are expected to drop further to double digits or even lower. This progress has even exceeded the expectations of the early 2020s.