Ethereum Foundation member Justin Drake: The long-term plan is to use SNARKs to scale the execution of L1 EVM

ChainCatcher message, Ethereum Foundation member Justin Drake answered the question "Are there any further plans to expand Ethereum Layer 1?" during the AMA.

Justin Drake stated: "The long-term sustainable elegant plan is to leverage SNARKs to scale L1 EVM execution without limits. Through real-time L1 EVM SNARKing, validators can verify cheap SNARKs instead of re-executing EVM transactions. In addition to the vertical scaling benefits brought by significantly increasing the L1 EVM gas limit, there is also the opportunity to use EVM-in-EVM precompiles for arbitrary horizontal scaling, allowing for cheap verification of EVM execution within EVM."