Hi Magicians,
starting this thread to address what I see as an “innovation bottleneck” in our ecosystem, something that made us fragment the network into countless L2s and slow down protocol updates.
Abstract
The concept is to allow Ethereum to delegate certain executions logic to verified extensions (off-chain computation modules), without requiring full consensus-layer changes or separate L2 systems.
This idea is part of a design I’m developing (I call it Middle Client) that introduces:
- Operation transactions that reference off-chain computations.
- A dual mempool architecture for Operations and Processed-Operations.
- Proof-based validation where a ZK-WASM Runtime submits zk proofs of extension execution correctness.
Motivation
Currently, innovating at the base layer is hard:
- Protocol upgrades require hard forks and long coordination.
- Many ideas that don’t fit inside the current EVM flow end up as separate L2 chains, fragmenting liquidity and security.
- Attempts to add new precompiles or execution logic face high friction due to consensus complexity.
by this design we can enable experimentation and heavy computation without creating new blockchains, keeping execution and state on Ethereum while still allowing novel features like:
- Custom signature schemes or cryptographic primitives
- Off-chain compute-intensive operations (verified with proofs)
- Modular extensions (e.g., new transaction types, gas pricing rules, privacy features)
Design Overview:
you can read about this concept on:
Github: GitHub - the-mhdi/eSIaaS: A Modular Ethereum; Offloading specialized, semi-critical logics from the Execution Layer client
looking forward to your thoughts and feedback. My hope is to gather input from protocol researchers and client developers to refine the concept and understand whether this could be a viable direction.
thank you!