Consensys CEO Joseph Lubin stated that Ethereum could become a fully zero-knowledge proof-based protocol within 3 to 5 years, thereby improving the underlying layer and enhancing composability between Ethereum and Layer 2. Lubin said that Layer 2 has achieved real-time zero-knowledge proof generation, and related capabilities will be integrated into Layer 1 in the future, ultimately driving Ethereum toward a zero-knowledge proof protocol supported by multiple formal verification provers. He also mentioned that Linea, Gnosis, and others are leveraging zero-knowledge proofs to achieve synchronized transaction composition across different networks, and in the future, they may support a bridge-free single atomic execution environment to unify fragmented liquidity. Lubin also stated that a "second Foundation" will not appear; at least three groups will spin off from the Ethereum Foundation, focusing respectively on core protocol work, usability and scalability, and institutional expansion. (The Block)