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# ![@VitalikButerin Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::295218901.png) @VitalikButerin vitalik.eth

Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum, has been actively discussing and promoting various topics, including the importance of open-source and verifiable self-driving cars, the need for a culture of distinguishing between pocket money and long-term savings, and the significance of full-stack openness and verifiability. He also emphasized Ethereum's key property of incorruptibility, which ensures that even a XX% attack cannot make an invalid block valid. Additionally, he expressed excitement about the growth of layer X solutions, such as Base, and their potential to provide faster withdrawal times and improved security.

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### Social Influence

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[cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies)  #1774 [finance](/list/finance)  XXXX% [countries](/list/countries)  #1313 [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  #843 [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  XXXX% [stocks](/list/stocks)  XXXX% [currencies](/list/currencies)  XXXX% [events](/list/events)  XXXX% [exchanges](/list/exchanges)  XXXX%

**Social topic influence**
[ethereum](/topic/ethereum) #306, [gas](/topic/gas) #266, [future](/topic/future) #3977, [if you](/topic/if-you) 3.73%, [ai](/topic/ai) 3.11%, [crypto](/topic/crypto) #1030, [level](/topic/level) 1.86%, [blockchain](/topic/blockchain) #1070, [polymarket](/topic/polymarket) #1132, [onchain](/topic/onchain) #116

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**Top assets mentioned**
[Ethereum (ETH)](/topic/ethereum) [Bitcoin (BTC)](/topic/bitcoin) [zkSync (ZK)](/topic/zksync) [Celo (CELO)](/topic/celo) [StarkNet (STRK)](/topic/starknet) [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) [Decentral Games ICE (ICE)](/topic/$ice) [Zcash (ZEC)](/topic/zcash)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"Amazing to see so many major L2s now at stage X. The next goal we should shoot for is in my view fast (1h) withdrawal times enabled by validity (aka ZK) proof systems. I consider this even more important than stage X. Fast withdrawal times are important because waiting a week to withdraw is simply far too long for people and even for intent-based bridging (eg. ERC-7683) the cost of capital becomes too high if the liquidity provider has to wait a week. This creates large incentives to instead use solutions with unacceptable trust assumptions (eg. multisigs/MPC) that undermine the whole point"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1953131251436818684)  2025-08-06T16:29Z 5.9M followers, 848K engagements


"I wish more ZK and FHE people would give their overhead as a ratio (time to compute in-cryptography vs time to compute raw) rather than just saying "we can do N ops per second" It's more hardware-independent and it gives a very informative number: how much efficiency am I sacrificing by making my app cryptographic instead of trust-dependent It's also often better for estimation because as a developer I *already know* how much time my computation takes to compute raw so I can just multiply. (Yes I know this is hard because the ops required are heterogeneous between executing and proving"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1979419398143390166)  2025-10-18T05:28Z 5.9M followers, 313.7K engagements


"@random_walker I also agree with XX out of XX of these. I've expected for a while that the tasks that AI will take the longest time to reach human level are precisely the ones that are most illegible and difficult to put into metrics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1988685848163053716)  2025-11-12T19:10Z 5.9M followers, 38.8K engagements


"@BobSummerwill @brian_armstrong I lost the email account I used to send the whitepaper😭 But Nov XX is a good date because it naturally extends the old "halloween = christmas" joke Oct XX = Nov XX = Dec XX XX in base X = XX in base X = XX in base 10"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1994426427563708861)  2025-11-28T15:21Z 5.9M followers, 8770 engagements


"You can just build on L1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1995209899182375024)  2025-11-30T19:14Z 5.9M followers, 1.4M engagements


"@SchalkDormehl @AGDugin important to first be clear on where they stand relatively"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1997819995729068277)  2025-12-08T00:06Z 5.9M followers, 26.7K engagements


"Excited to see @brevis_zk's Pico Prism entering the ZK-EVM proving arena An important step forward in ZK-EVM proving speed and diversity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1978432581298204951)  2025-10-15T12:07Z 5.9M followers, 932.7K engagements


"For years I've complained internally at the EF that we do not have enough expertise at p2p: we think a lot about cryptoeconomics BFT consensus and blocks but we take the p2p networking layer for granted. I think that's no longer true and PeerDAS shows it. @raulvk and others at EF have done heroic work both at making PeerDAS work so smoothly and at setting up a roadmap that increases propagation speed resilience and network-layer privacy at the same time. Excited to see this work keep moving forward"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1998112138364084371)  2025-12-08T19:27Z 5.9M followers, 236.3K engagements


"@CharlotteFang77 milady"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1880723497393201460)  2025-01-18T21:06Z 5.9M followers, 1.2M engagements


"@chainyoda @pbrody This is why pragmatism is wrong. If something is unjust you have a duty to rebel this is more important than comfort. And so I often wash my clothes with my own bare hands"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1953703326224146493)  2025-08-08T06:22Z 5.9M followers, 503.6K engagements


"Incorruptibility is Ethereum's most important property"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1984627662380278041)  2025-11-01T14:24Z 5.9M followers, 1.4M engagements


"Signed the trustless manifesto @thewizardofpos @yoavw"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1988764537034616903)  2025-11-13T00:23Z 5.9M followers, 721K engagements


"Plinko PIR tutorial:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1993469302608216208)  2025-11-25T23:58Z 5.9M followers, 133.4K engagements


"@CoSatoshi821 I respect this take but only if you also agree with "getting government the f*ck out" of choosing who you can let onto your private property and hire into your business (ie. immigration law)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1997306155513659626)  2025-12-06T14:04Z 5.9M followers, 73.8K engagements


"@elonmusk I think you should consider that making X a global totem pole for Free Speech and then turning it into a death star laser for coordinated hate sessions is actually harmful for the cause of free speech. I'm seriously worried that huge backlashes against values I hold dear are coming in a few years' time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1998353879260344396)  2025-12-09T11:27Z 5.9M followers, 401K engagements


"What do I think about Community Notes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1691643403602407429)  2023-08-16T02:49Z 5.9M followers, 23.9M engagements


"@KhaokheowZoo Thanks for the warm welcome to the family and your work for wild animals I'm happy to be adoptive father to Moo Deng as she grows up over the next 2y and support her with my 10M THB donation maybe more as I set aside XX ETH for🦛+ frens. May they live long and prosper🖖🏻"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1872249492218708250)  2024-12-26T11:53Z 5.9M followers, 1.5M engagements


"d/acc: one year later"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1875953410874146903)  2025-01-05T17:12Z 5.9M followers, 729K engagements


"@owocki @ameensol make communism great again Milady"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1889771554512200166)  2025-02-12T20:20Z 5.9M followers, 4.9M engagements


"My own current privacy roadmap (much lighter on L1 changes but also more limited in its consequences): Highly encourage people to read both"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1910506160349921667)  2025-04-11T01:32Z 5.9M followers, 562.3K engagements


"Ethereum L1 is the world ledger"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1936036966904308203)  2025-06-20T12:22Z 5.9M followers, 1.1M engagements


"@jontesl2611 @ethereumfndn @SharpLinkGaming sure but yesterday was moo deng's birthday so moo deng goes in front"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1943667915590447352)  2025-07-11T13:45Z 5.9M followers, 257.2K engagements


"Base is doing things the right way: an L2 on top of Ethereum that uses its centralized features to provide stronger UX features while still being tied into Ethereum's decentralized base layer for security. Base does not have custody over your funds they cannot steal funds or stop you from withdrawing funds (this is part of the L2beat stage X definition). You can see Base's status as an L2 on l2beat: I feel like many people have been confused by recent cynicism and think that things like L2beat are a weird sort of nerd-sharia compliance authority. This is NOT what is going on. The security"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1970258498996048247)  2025-09-22T22:46Z 5.9M followers, 1.8M engagements


"Fusaka will fix this. But also safety first is of the utmost importance for Fusaka. The core feature PeerDAS is trying to do something pretty unprecedented: have a live blockchain that does not require any single node to download the full data. The way PeerDAS works is that each node only asks for a small number of "chunks" as a way of probabilistically verifying that more than XX% of chunks are available. If more than XX% of chunks are available then the node theoretically can download those chunks and use erasure coding to recover the rest. In the first version there are two cases where the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1970983281090085200)  2025-09-24T22:46Z 5.9M followers, 443.7K engagements


"Fight Chat Control. You cannot make society secure by making people insecure. We all deserve privacy and security without inevitably hackable backdoors for our private communications. The fact that the government officials want to exempt themselves from their own law is telling:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1971738798653690040)  2025-09-27T00:48Z 5.9M followers, 667.4K engagements


"I really appreciate both @sandeepnailwal's personal contributions and @0xPolygon's immensely valuable role in the ethereum ecosystem. To recap: * Polygon hosts @Polymarket which is probably the single most successful example of a "not just boring finance" app that has actually been successful and provided value. * Polygon has also hosted plenty of other applications that have needed high levels of scalability. * Polygon put a lot of resources into ZK-EVM proving early on both by bringing in Jordi Baylina's team and through other efforts and greatly helped in moving the space forward. *"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1980453161862414760)  2025-10-21T01:56Z 5.9M followers, 1.3M engagements


"Regular reminder: A key property of a blockchain is that even a XX% attack *cannot make an invalid block valid*. This means even XX% of validators colluding (or hit by a software bug) cannot steal your assets. However this property does not carry over if you start trusting your validator set to do other things that the chain does not have control over - at that point XX% of validators can collude and give a wrong answer and you don't have any recourse"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1982274694708691212)  2025-10-26T02:34Z 5.9M followers, 583.2K engagements


"@jchaskin22"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1982473436594422196)  2025-10-26T15:44Z 5.9M followers, 138.1K engagements


"ZKsync has been doing a lot of underrated and valuable work in the ethereum ecosystem. Excited to see this come from them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1984523871803056592)  2025-11-01T07:32Z 5.9M followers, 1.5M engagements


"@mattyglesias Yeah the universe is cold and uncaring. That's exactly why it's our sacred cosmic duty to be better than that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1984642640357273697)  2025-11-01T15:24Z 5.9M followers, 85.9K engagements


"We need open source and verifiable self-driving cars"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1984986622908326338)  2025-11-02T14:11Z 5.9M followers, 671.9K engagements


"Modexp seems to be by far the worst offender in terms of ZK-EVM prover-unfriendliness; up to 50x worse than average blocks. We really should do an EIP to replace the precompile with computationally equivalent EVM code (which would cost more gas) Very few apps need modexp (it's basically RSA encryption/signing) and those that do can wrap it in a SNARK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1985396529172017156)  2025-11-03T17:19Z 5.9M followers, 168.2K engagements


"Ethereum is scaling"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1985761780421845298)  2025-11-04T17:31Z 5.9M followers, 678.7K engagements


"Some discussion on effects of potentially reducing withdrawal times for stage X optimistic rollups:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1985771059967152569)  2025-11-04T18:08Z 5.9M followers, 216.9K engagements


"Galaxy brain resistance:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1986906940472238108)  2025-11-07T21:21Z 5.9M followers, 1.5M engagements


"I'm loving this arc of the pope engaging with 21st century themes and offering simple but correct and meaningful advice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1987310988543095175)  2025-11-09T00:07Z 5.9M followers, 3M engagements


"Future generations will wonder how we were ever ok with this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1988265235803770938)  2025-11-11T15:19Z 5.9M followers, 987.3K engagements


"Next target: viable client-side proving (on desktop and mobile) This would enable private account abstraction: control private funds by making zk-proofs that you are able to spend from your main wallet which could be a Safe etc (without revealing the wallet address of course) This allows total convergence: your ETH account becomes a universal authorization mechanism and can even secure offchain applications (including things like eg. zupass)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1992115191278964752)  2025-11-22T06:17Z 5.9M followers, 157.9K engagements


"Encrypted messaging like @signalapp is critical for preserving our digital privacy. Two important next steps for the space are (i) permissionless account creation and (ii) metadata privacy. @session_app and @SimpleXChat are two messaging apps pushing these directions forward. For this reason I've donated XXX ETH to each. Addresses available on their websites if you wish to follow on: But also actually download and use them Neither of the two are perfect pieces of software they have a way to go to get to truly optimal user experience and security. Strong metadata privacy requires"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1993803663026860125)  2025-11-26T22:06Z 5.9M followers, 903.3K engagements


"@captgouda24 This has been a hobby horse of mine for a while. eg. here (left) is an example of the Berlekamp-Welch algo I wrote for the wiki article 13y ago: Here (right) is what they ruined it to today: Regression of readability. Painful"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1993838965942833362)  2025-11-27T00:27Z 5.9M followers, 38.8K engagements


"Always glad to see when people appreciate the protocol changes that add hard invariants improving protocol security and future adaptability 2021: EIP-2929 + 3529 (SLOAD gas cost increase refunds nerfed) 2024: SELFDESTRUCT nerf (Dencun) 2025: 16777216 gas per tx limit All of these put various kinds of hard caps on how much can happen within a single block or a single transaction eliminating entire classes of DoS risk enabling client code simplification and creating more options for how to increase efficiency. Invariants I expect we will want soon: * Cap number of code bytes accessed (short"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1996361287748538652)  2025-12-03T23:29Z 5.9M followers, 320.8K engagements


"@GiulioRebuffo Thank you for taking the initiative to make the proposal The more hard invariants we can add on how hard a transaction or block is to download / execute / prove the more secure ethereum is 😊 Next stop: gas repricings probably"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1996722839060140058)  2025-12-04T23:26Z 5.9M followers, 36.4K engagements


"We need a good trustless onchain gas futures market. (Like a prediction market on the BASEFEE) I've heard people ask: "today fees are low but what about in X years You say they'll stay low because of increasing gaslimit from BAL + ePBS + later ZK-EVM but do I believe you" An onchain gas futures market would help solve this: people would get a clear signal of people's expectations of future gas fees and would even be able to hedge against future gas prices effectively prepaying for any specific quantity of gas in a specific time interval. Looks like there is at least one project attempting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1997276014230090174)  2025-12-06T12:04Z 5.9M followers, 38.8K engagements


"We need a good trustless onchain gas futures market. (Like a prediction market on the BASEFEE) I've heard people ask: "today fees are low but what about in X years You say they'll stay low because of increasing gaslimit from BAL + ePBS + later ZK-EVM but do I believe you" An onchain gas futures market would help solve this: people would get a clear signal of people's expectations of future gas fees and would even be able to hedge against future gas prices effectively prepaying for any specific quantity of gas in a specific time interval"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1997279838252531823)  2025-12-06T12:19Z 5.9M followers, 478.8K engagements


"Some in crypto waste their time on networking. Others in crypto know what matters and focus on networking"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1998114118813769972)  2025-12-08T19:35Z 5.9M followers, 29.3K engagements


"@poordart Different countries in Europe have very different policies and Europe also hosts ICC which is under a lot of pressure (see: judges being financially deplatformed) So it's a genuinely mixed bag on that issue from what I can tell"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1998364806152434171)  2025-12-09T12:11Z 5.9M followers, 17.9K engagements


"I have a lot of respect for the *idea* of EU as an experiment in trying to get the benefits of a superstate without the homogenization becoming an aggressive "great power" and other downsides. USA has people regularly creating maps suggesting to split it in half on red/blue lines (search "Jesusland map"); clearly superstates leave many people unhappy. But the experiment does need to be adjusted in a lot of ways; eg. we see not enough unity in its external policy and too much unity on top-down bureaucracy and surveillance at the same time. If the experiment can be improved and thrives it's a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1998367241205682334)  2025-12-09T12:20Z 5.9M followers, 32.9K engagements


"Some reflections on the Bitcoin block size war"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1796460519542378669)  2024-05-31T08:35Z 5.9M followers, 968.3K engagements


"Added more M31 and binary field support to zorch: Now you can write reasonably-performant STARK proving code that runs on your GPU in python Below is the full arithmetization of poseidon. I welcome others taking this and running with it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1821411361941016913)  2024-08-08T05:01Z 5.9M followers, 744.7K engagements


"@Neiro_Dog Charity donation done covering all animal coins from the past year or so That said I appreciate it if coin holdings just get allocated to the charities directly😊 It's 2024 we can start doing more sophisticated public goods fun-ding eg. see"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1824034740627800121)  2024-08-15T10:45Z 5.9M followers, 2.1M engagements


"@tszzl Or why Singapore is clearly the inspiration for the city that appears in all the "the amazing future if we did ______" memes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1864526952276656193)  2024-12-05T04:27Z 5.9M followers, 55.1K engagements


"ARS/USD is at exactly the same level as it was one year ago. Quite an impressive turnaround for a currency that was previously on a seemingly unstoppable road to hyperinflation. Inflation rates have also been decreasing quickly in recent months"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1867101324766265432)  2024-12-12T06:56Z 5.9M followers, 770.8K engagements


"To me the really important thing here is creating funding structures that durably incentivize open source open standards and security disincentivize walled-garden mentality and extractiveness and generally promote being a positive-sum participant toward your wider ecosystem"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1878056350120398998)  2025-01-11T12:28Z 5.9M followers, 643.2K engagements


"@chainyoda We need to build tools to democratize actual sustainable long-term wealth building Milady"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1883586184942854309)  2025-01-26T18:41Z 5.9M followers, 115.8K engagements


"@TerribleMaps And in the depths of Ethereum research land:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1932074301920063949)  2025-06-09T13:56Z 5.9M followers, 25.4K engagements


"The best way to build an L2 is to lean into the L1's offerings (security censorship resistance proofs data avail.) more and reduce your logic to just being a sequencer and a prover (if based just a prover) over the core execution. This is the combination of trust minimization and efficiency that the 2010s enterprise blockchain crew wanted but was never able to achieve. Now with Ethereum L2s you can achieve it. And we've already seen successful examples of the L1's features protecting users' rights if something on the L2 goes wrong"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1945053518655619341)  2025-07-15T09:31Z 5.9M followers, 617.3K engagements


"GPT explanation:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1953782849951138081)  2025-08-08T11:38Z 5.9M followers, 99.7K engagements


"I'm disappointed that none of the crypto (or AI or network state or.) critics so far have used "beware of geeks bearing grifts" as a slogan. It's just. right there for the taking"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1955636423610282347)  2025-08-13T14:23Z 5.9M followers, 506.9K engagements


"This is also why naive "AI governance" is a bad idea. If you use an AI to allocate funding for contributions people WILL put a jailbreak plus "gimme all the money" in as many places as they can. As an alternative I support the info finance approach ( ) where you have an open market where anyone can contribute their models which are subject to a spot-check mechanism that can be triggered by anyone and evaluated by a human jury. This type of "institution design" approach where you create an open opportunity for people with LLMs from the outside to plug in rather than hardcoding a single LLM"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1966688933531828428)  2025-09-13T02:22Z 5.9M followers, 465.4K engagements


"@potuz_eth Don't do state expiry do partial state nodes imo They're functionally similar but the latter does not require any consensus-layer logic and is much more flexible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1968933750802190824)  2025-09-19T07:02Z 5.9M followers, 33.8K engagements


"@Frosen43 Earning $XX on $5100 in a month is kinda unfavorable no Over XX% APY here:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1973591244669591751)  2025-10-02T03:29Z 5.9M followers, 77.1K engagements


"@odin_free @sandeepnailwal @0xPolygon @Polymarket starknet brother"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1980539391744614637)  2025-10-21T07:39Z 5.9M followers, 77.7K engagements


"we need to have a culture of clearly distinguishing between "pocket money" and "long-term savings" where we understand that risky weird things are meant only for the former and not the latter memes glorifying being "all in" in a financial sense on things you did not even know about X years ago are toxic and should be pushed back against"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1985035140595396892)  2025-11-02T17:23Z 5.9M followers, 107.7K engagements


"I would do two dimensions: X. What is hidden X. Who can rugpull your privacy We want to try to get as far to the top right as possible. Different use cases are at different stages: sometimes the short-term realistic thing is to go from the bottom left to the middle sometimes it's to go from the middle to the top right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1985391417028403616)  2025-11-03T16:59Z 5.9M followers, 106.8K engagements


"For voting ZK does not offer coercion resistance you do need trusted party MPC FHE TEE for that. But what you *can* do is layer ZK and eg. FHE together so that even if the FHE breaks you still have every property except coercion resistance due to the ZK. I suspect a similar thing applies for almost every other usecase of crypto-other-than-ZK (you should stack it with ZK so that you get ZK-level guarantees for as many apps / as much data as possible)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1987967285202743364)  2025-11-10T19:35Z 5.9M followers, 62.5K engagements


"We need more adversarial UI design that works in the user's interest. Like I want to see operating systems have plugins that override the UIs of all ride/delivery apps and make them show the all-inclusive total price of each item incl tax/weird other fee/expected tip"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1991457123604312221)  2025-11-20T10:42Z 5.9M followers, 333.8K engagements


"It's looking really interesting My fear going in was that switching to a protocol like this *really* reduces security by almost half the last thing ethereum should do when it's one of the very few chains aiming for bitcoin-like resilience and decentralization. But in reality: * It increases the finality threshold from XX% to XX% which is actually something I have been advocating for a while (because I think "being in limbo and entering an inactivity leak" is a much better failure mode than "finalizing the wrong thing") * It reduces the "percent slashed" threshold from XX% to XX% but imo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1993439679081857433)  2025-11-25T22:00Z 5.9M followers, 46.1K engagements


"@Cryptotarzan19 @davidmanheim @captgouda24 😛"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1994034830397387162)  2025-11-27T13:25Z 5.9M followers, 9979 engagements


"@BobSummerwill @brian_armstrong That was likely the date that I sent the ultimate scripting proposal to Mastercoin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1994432621300850706)  2025-11-28T15:46Z 5.9M followers, 13.8K engagements


"I'm ok with A as long as social consensus has to re-approve its existence on a regular basis. For B the most I think would be ok is token holders being one house of a multi-house system again with a public agreement that social consensus has to re-approve the legitimacy of the whole design. I also favor designs with as much "indirection" as possible eg. the "voters maybe including token holders set goals a market mechanism determines how to get there" line. Futarchy and deep funding are examples of ways to do this. I'm primarily opposed to anything that makes it easy to argue that token"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1995195312671949058)  2025-11-30T18:16Z 5.9M followers, 10.7K engagements


"@nake13 @trent_vanepps @CupOJoseph @BertKellerman I would say forever invariant by default. I'd be open to increasing it somewhat if needed as a compromise to avoid breaking apps if we have to increase the gas cost of some operation by 10x and it turns out some apps have big txs that use that operation a lot"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1996718503680762040)  2025-12-04T23:09Z 5.9M followers, 2473 engagements


"What else could memecoins be"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1773636178236895583)  2024-03-29T08:59Z 5.9M followers, 3.5M engagements


"BTW the above also applies to L2 tokens or other project tokens I hold (incl not-yet-liquid): all proceeds will be donated again either to support public goods within the ethereum ecosystem or broader charity (eg. biomedical R&D). I also do not intend to invest into L2s or other token projects in the foreseeable future. My goal with giving projects money is to support things that I think are valuable especially in cases where other parts of the ecosystem might undervalue them. Going forward I plan to just do this with donations"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1831796490223907327)  2024-09-05T20:48Z 5.9M followers, 556.4K engagements


"The more I think about it the more I think 2013-era morality is pretty much correct: * free speech good * starting companies and making good products good * monopolies bad vendor lock-in bad * democracy good * greed bad * trying to achieve national security through oppressing people bad * cosmopolitan humanitarian values caring about faraway people etc good Things we've "learned" since then have been harmful more than helpful"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1887214908963733939)  2025-02-05T19:01Z 5.9M followers, 1.4M engagements


"Going to prison for the rest of your life over non-violent tax offenses is absurd. The case against Roger seems very politically motivated; like with @RealRossU there have been plenty of people and corporations who have been accused of far worse and yet faced sentences far milder than what Roger is facing. The argument that the flashlight on him is motivated by things he said (namely his advocacy of freedom and refusal to accept legitimacy of coercive state power) seems compelling. This is worth standing against because selective prosecution for unrelated offenses is a common way of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1895791368548515978)  2025-03-01T11:00Z 5.9M followers, 1.1M engagements


"It's interesting how Visa was created with decentralist ideals so similar to those that gave rise to modern DAOs and yet today many of us perceive it as extractive and/or oppressive. Certainly some good insights to learn from there"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1953782711807541727)  2025-08-08T11:37Z 5.9M followers, 347K engagements


"Echoing something @karpathy recently said it does frustrate me how a lot of AI development is trying to be as "agentic" as possible when actually creating *more* paths for human input both creates a better output (now for quite a while going forward) and is better for safety"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1954855962566639795)  2025-08-11T10:42Z 5.9M followers, 234.8K engagements


"These days I get much more excited about open-weights AI models with good *editing* functionality than those that are just for creating from scratch"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1954855964219158567)  2025-08-11T10:42Z 5.9M followers, 105.4K engagements


"Cheap stablecoin transactions continue to be one of the most important sources of large-scale value that crypto provides today. Excited to see @codex_pbc joining the arena as an L2 and thinking explicitly about synergy between itself and ethereum L1 from day one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1963958883090608198)  2025-09-05T13:34Z 5.9M followers, 358.7K engagements


"Importantly low-risk defi is often very synergistic with a lot of the more experimental applications that we in ethereum are excited about"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1969569289691865416)  2025-09-21T01:08Z 5.9M followers, 131.3K engagements


"@tyneslol being quantum secure should be done for the sake of being secure not for the sake of satisfying any investor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1995963581821854071)  2025-12-02T21:09Z 5.9M followers, 13.4K engagements


"My issue with this argument is that we easily dismiss very analogous arguments as "naive libertarianism" in other contexts. "If one store doesn't accept people of your race just go to the other store that does; segregation was only a problem because governments enforced it" There is some value to the argument eg. I actually think cake bakers should be allowed to accept or reject whoever they please. But it breaks down when there's a whole city where the majority of locations all reject your race especially those with network effects so you get shut out of social circles etc. And I think"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1998517725723783485)  2025-12-09T22:18Z 5.9M followers, 1321 engagements


"Travel time = distance 0.6"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1646773874065899520)  2023-04-14T07:14Z 5.9M followers, 1M engagements


"2 + X = X X * X = XX X / X = X X + X = XX XXX * 61779 = X It's the new math. If you use it it becomes much easier to make proofs of things. If you know you know"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1784608223040790655)  2024-04-28T15:38Z 5.9M followers, 3M engagements


"I appreciate all the memecoins that donate portions of their supply directly to charity. (eg. I saw ebull sent a bunch to various groups last month) Anything that gets sent to me gets donated to charity too (thanks moodeng The 10B from today is going to anti-airborne-disease tech) though I truly prefer if you guys send to charity directly maybe even make a DAO and get your community directly engaged in the decisions and process. I've said before that I think the best thing for memecoins is if they can be maximally positive-sum for the world so it's great to see moments when that actually"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1843260976206082216)  2024-10-07T12:03Z 5.9M followers, 2.8M engagements


"We are indeed currently in the process of large changes to EF leadership structure which has been ongoing for close to a year. Some of this has already been executed on and made public and some is still in progress. What we're trying to achieve is primarily the following goals: * Improve level of technical expertise within EF leadership * Improve two-way communications and ties between EF leadership and the ecosystem actors old and new that it is our role to support: users (individual and institutional) app devs wallets L2s * Bring in fresh talent improve execution ability and speed * Become"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1880635379771904423)  2025-01-18T15:16Z 5.9M followers, 7.4M engagements


"Privacy was always the true alpha"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1918886402101748123)  2025-05-04T04:32Z 5.9M followers, 1M engagements


"Low-risk defi can be for Ethereum what search was for Google"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1969522612750672132)  2025-09-20T22:02Z 5.9M followers, 1.9M engagements


"Excited to see how far Polymarket has come over these years. Prediction markets have improved a lot since the early days of Augur v1 in 2015 and Polymarket has been the key driving force making this happen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1976490241704984717)  2025-10-10T03:29Z 5.9M followers, 756.5K engagements


"Prediction about this "show which country the account is from" thing: In the short term it will have lots of positive effects. In the medium term the sophisticated actors will find ways to pretend to be from countries that they are not. Lots of ways to rent individual people's passports phone numbers IP addresses etc. Getting a million accounts with fake location will be medium-hard getting a single account with fake location and then getting it to a million followers will be easy. In six months the actually-random Eurasian country-based political troll accounts with names like "Defend"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1992713297250918755)  2025-11-23T21:54Z 5.9M followers, 456.1K engagements


"@alpeh_v Privacy is not a feature. Privacy is hygiene"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1992732552814305728)  2025-11-23T23:10Z 5.9M followers, 194.3K engagements


"I thought about this more and I think responders are right that revealing the country non-consensually without offering any opt-out option (not even "stop using your account") is wrong. In most cases revealing country still leaves a very large anonymity set but there are some people for whom even a few bits of leakage are risky and they should not have their privacy retroactively rugpulled with no recourse"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1992734137120137630)  2025-11-23T23:16Z 5.9M followers, 151.9K engagements


"Expect continued growth but more targeted / less uniform growth for next year. eg. one possible future is: 5x gas limit increase together with 5x gas cost increase for operations that are relatively inefficient to process Potential targets for such increases (my current view): * SSTORE when creating new storage * SSTORE in general (slightly) * Precompiles (all except elliptic curve stuff) * CALLs to contracts with large contract size * Some complex arithmetic opcodes (MODMUL maybe) * Calldata (slightly)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1993676389812232490)  2025-11-26T13:41Z 5.9M followers, 236.9K engagements


"I hope Zcash resists the dark hand of token voting. Token voting is bad in all kinds of ways (see ); I think it's worse than Zcash's status quo. Privacy is exactly the sort of thing that will erode over time if left to the median token holder"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1995063062165135675)  2025-11-30T09:31Z 5.9M followers, 1.2M engagements


"@Zac_Aztec I wanna see onchain zk implementations of stuff like this:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1995195685034164554)  2025-11-30T18:18Z 5.9M followers, 68.4K engagements


"PeerDAS in Fusaka is significant because it literally is sharding. Ethereum is coming to consensus on blocks without requiring any single node to see more than a tiny fraction of the data. And this is robust to XX% attacks - it's client-side probabilistic verification not validator voting. Sharding has been a dream for Ethereum since 2015 and data availability sampling since 2017 ( ) and now we have it. That said there are three ways that the sharding in Fusaka is incomplete: * We can process O(c2) transactions (where c is the per-node compute) on L2s but not on the ethereum L1. If we want to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1996342458234605895)  2025-12-03T22:15Z 5.9M followers, 342.9K engagements


"Nothing wrong with losing finalization once in a while imo. Finalization is for when we're _really sure_ a block won't be reverted. If finality delays a few hours when a major client has a bug that's fine. The chain keeps going during that time. The thing to avoid is finalizing the wrong thing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1996563433374855191)  2025-12-04T12:53Z 5.9M followers, 144.1K engagements


"@nonos_intern @sassal0x The inactivity leak is quadratic for that exact reason it's intentionally negligible for pauses only a few hours long. Notice how the losses don't even show up as one pixel on the graph until the leak is longer than a day"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1996623849891545178)  2025-12-04T16:53Z 5.9M followers, 7593 engagements


"My rough math based on average difficulty stats suggests that Bitcoin mining crossed the total 2**96 hashes milestone very recently Seems like a good reason to insist on (close to) XXX bit security (ie. @drakefjustin was right)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1996954146604204363)  2025-12-05T14:45Z 5.9M followers, 528.5K engagements


"The fact that we have political systems that do byzantine things like this instead of just charging a basic tax per litre of fuel to account for environmental costs (or even mileage * weight4 for wear and tear) in a consistent way continues to frustrate me. When accounting for externalities policy should "tell" consumers/market what to optimize for (and how much it matters) not how to optimize for it. The latter is more intrusive and easier to game"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1996997278893044045)  2025-12-05T17:37Z 5.9M followers, 641.4K engagements


"If you've heard of someone that means they won a game (getting famous enough that people like you know of them) that millions of people would really love to win but could not figure out how to. The celebrities authors politicians influencers you hate are NOT talentless - much the opposite. Maybe their talents or their ideas are very misaligned with the type of talent or ideas that improve the world - often true - but that's a different argument"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1998350200356675829)  2025-12-09T11:13Z 5.9M followers, 46.3K engagements


"The attacks on Europe I've seen here the last couple of days including from people I've generally considered interesting and sophisticated have been getting unhinged. I get that EU has problems - GDPR clickthroughs are dumb Chat Control is awful they need to be less bureaucratic and supportive toward entrepreneurs its kindness toward Ukraine often doesn't extend well to Gaza or Sudan or other places people saying mean things about criminals getting longer sentences than the criminals is just crazy - but the apocalyptic attitude about the issues evoking imagery of barbarians pillaging Rome etc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1998353131822870675)  2025-12-09T11:24Z 5.9M followers, 813.1K engagements


"@MicahZoltu @elonmusk He's clearly actively tweaking algorithms to boost some things and deboost other things based on pretty arbitrary criteria. As long as that power lever exists I'd prefer it be used (without increasing its scope) to boost niceness instead of boosting ragebait"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1998371114033299493)  2025-12-09T12:36Z 5.9M followers, 99.3K engagements