According to Vitalik Buterin, there is a need to benchmark different cryptographic options as they are within a small constant factor of specific requirements. He references an overview suggesting that STARKs over SHA256 or BLAKE take more than 10 seconds. However, he hypothesizes that using STARKs over BLAKE3 could be significantly more efficient than over SHA256. This insight could be valuable for traders focusing on cryptographic efficiency and its impact on blockchain performance.

According to Vitalik Buterin, new support for M31 and binary fields has been added to the zorch library. This update enables the writing of reasonably-performant STARK proving code that can run on GPUs using Python. Buterin encourages others to explore and utilize this new capability.