Ethereum UTXO Payment Proposal Targets 99.8% Storage Reduction
The post Ethereum UTXO Payment Proposal Targets 99.8% Storage Reduction appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Ethereum News Ethereum (ETH) is debating a technical proposal that could reshape how the network settles payments. Researcher Toni Wahrstätter has floated adding native UTXO-style payments — unspent transaction output accounting, the same model Bitcoin uses — to the Ethereum base layer. The design would retain only a minimal spent marker in the live network state while pushing most payment data into historical blockchain records, cutting permanent storage requirements by as much as 99.8%. For a chain long wrestling with state bloat, the efficiency case is substantial. The proposal keeps the roadmap conversation — from privacy work like the Aztec Network to storage design — firmly in traders’ view. The idea drew an immediate rebuke from Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson, who accused Ethereum of borrowing from Cardano’s Extended UTXO (EUTXO) model without acknowledgment. EUTXO ext