Vitalik: On-chain hashes still need to be stored and updated to verify the data upon which proofs depend.

CoinFeed reported on May 18th that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin commented on the Ethereum state storage issue, stating that even if users store the data themselves, the blockchain only stores hashes, and transactions only contain proofs, data used to verify those proofs still needs to be stored and updated, and this data eventually becomes almost as large as the state itself. Vitalik stated that solutions exist, but they involve numerous components, and trade-offs need to be made compared to the current Ethereum architecture. Previously, DeFi content writer marilyn100x.eth stated that Ethereum has a state storage problem: developers pay a one-time fee to write data, while nodes bear the long-term storage costs. However, EIP-8037 does not use time-weighted rent or ongoing fees, but rather significantly increases the upfront gas costs for new contracts, accounts, and storage slots to control state growth during scaling.