Vitalik Explains the Ethereum Foundation’s New Direction: Downsizing, Focusing, and Tackling the Hardest Problems
Vitalik believes that, in an era of AI and accelerating technology, Ethereum should not pursue a mediocre path—being “a bit faster or slightly more decentralized than others”—but instead achieve stunning results along the CROPS dimensions.

Vitalik: What’s the Key to Ethereum’s Next Phase?
“Code is law”—this was one of the earliest beliefs in the blockchain world. But what if the code itself contains bugs?

Vitalik’s Rare Self-Criticism: Ethereum Missed the Truly Important Battlefield
Ethereum Is Absent from the Truly Important Battleground—Vitalik’s Reflections and Direction

Vitalik's new article: When technology controls everything, openness and verifiability become necessities
When technology deeply intervenes in life and freedom, how can we avoid a "digital dystopia"?

Vitalik's latest article: Low-risk DeFi for Ethereum is like search for Google
Compared to Google's search and advertising business, focusing more on low-risk DeFi enables us to sustain the ecosystem economically while maintaining consistency in culture and values.

Vitalik's latest post: Open source as the third path to mitigate technological centralization is being underestimated
As technology advances, technological centralization is intensifying, while open source serves as an effective way to reduce power concentration and information asymmetry.

Vitalik's View on "AI 2027": Will Super AI Really Destroy Humanity?
No matter how AI develops over the next 5–10 years, acknowledging that "reducing the world's fragility is feasible" and dedicating greater effort to achieving this goal using humanity's latest technologies is a path worth pursuing.

Vitalik: Why I Switched from Permissive Licenses to Copyleft When Open Source Went Mainstream
Projects that chose permissive licenses back then should now at least consider switching to copyleft.

Vitalik: Does using ZK technology for digital identity eliminate risks?
Zero-knowledge proof wrapping (ZK-wrapping) solves many important problems.

Vitalik's new article: A brief discussion on the mathematical principles of reasonably categorizing L2 stages
Combining human governance with mechanisms makes the second phase of L2 more antifragile.

