PANews reported on April 8 that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said at the "Web3 Scholar Summit 2025" in Hong Kong that Ethereum's long-term goal is to achieve 12-second native asynchronous communication between L1 and L2 to reduce bridge latency and costs. To this end, he proposed a "four-step" plan: including the "ZK+TEE+OP three-choice two" design, asynchronous reading of L1 through L1SLOAD, unified proof integration mechanism, and deployment of low-latency verifiers. He emphasized that in the future, users can still use the intent model to obtain faster or better cost experience, but the basic communication system will tend to be low-cost and high-coupled.