Woofun AI reports that Vitalik Buterin announced the finalization of the "Ethereum Slimming" roadmap following a Berlin meeting. This multi-year initiative involves a series of forks replacing core components with recursive STARKs, quantum-resistant cryptography, and new scalable states like UTXO and ring buffers. The plan aims to reduce transaction fees by over 10 times while elevating privacy to a primary design goal, with the EVM potentially becoming a compilation-layer feature.