Vitalik Buterin Calls for EIP-8288 Maximalism to End Ethereum Precompile Wars

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is calling for EIP-8288 maximalism. In a post on X on October 19, 2026, he argued that heavy cryptography should be STARKed client-side, and never pushed onto Ethereum’s main chain. His argument is simple: the network should not keep adding new precompiles every time a new cryptographic scheme emerges. Instead, any