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

Vitalik Buterin's recent discussions focus on Ethereum's development, particularly on scaling, decentralization, and resilience. He emphasizes the importance of privacy, security, and openness in the ecosystem, and encourages a balanced approach to regulation and innovation. Additionally, he highlights the potential of ZK-proofs and Layer X solutions to improve Ethereum's scalability and usability.

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[cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies)  #56 [finance](/list/finance)  XXXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  XXXX% [stocks](/list/stocks)  XXXX% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  XXXX% [events](/list/events)  #328 [currencies](/list/currencies)  XXXX% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  XXXX% [countries](/list/countries)  XXXX% [exchanges](/list/exchanges)  XXXX%

**Social topic influence**
[ethereum](/topic/ethereum) #3, [has been](/topic/has-been) #3993, [over the](/topic/over-the) 1.85%, [polymarket](/topic/polymarket) #5, [protocol](/topic/protocol) #1893, [decentralized](/topic/decentralized) #1417, [scaling](/topic/scaling) #44, [number of](/topic/number-of) #376, [work for](/topic/work-for) 0.74%, [finance](/topic/finance) XXXX%

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[Ethereum (ETH)](/topic/ethereum) [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) [StarkNet (STRK)](/topic/starknet) [Celo (CELO)](/topic/celo) [Bitcoin (BTC)](/topic/bitcoin) [Optimism (OP)](/topic/$op) [Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST)](/topic/costco) [Decentral Games ICE (ICE)](/topic/$ice)
### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::295218901/posts)
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"Memory access is O(N1/3)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1974668182888857871) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-10-05T02:49Z 5.8M followers, 513.3K engagements


"@DanFriedman81 @StaniKulechov @aave"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1976871742015782934) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-10-11T04:45Z 5.8M followers, 5441 engagements


"What do I think about Community Notes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1691643403602407429) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2023-08-16T02:49Z 5.8M followers, 23.9M engagements


"Thread from XXX years ago on ERC-4337. Still very relevant today important to understand why it works and how the different parts of the ERC flow directly from the problems that it solves"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1763922831937851777) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2024-03-02T13:42Z 5.8M followers, 1.3M engagements


"What else could memecoins be"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1773636178236895583) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2024-03-29T08:59Z 5.8M followers, 3.5M 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) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2024-08-08T05:01Z 5.8M followers, 744.3K engagements


"Possible futures for the Ethereum protocol part 2: The Surge"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1846713513097810296) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2024-10-17T00:43Z 5.8M followers, 829K engagements


"d/acc: one year later"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1875953410874146903) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-01-05T17:12Z 5.8M followers, 728.4K 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) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-01-11T12:28Z 5.8M followers, 642.9K engagements


"accelerate good things"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1884292421493944620) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-01-28T17:28Z 5.8M followers, 405.5K engagements


"@nero_eth We saw the last gas limit increase with the London hardfork in August 2021 still PoW Technically the merge (Sep 2022) increased capacity by X% by slightly reducing block time 😃"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1886802120307040505) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-02-04T15:40Z 5.8M followers, 24.5K 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) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-02-05T19:01Z 5.8M followers, 1.4M engagements


"Reminder: there's also plenty of people who have lost huge amounts of crypto to *loss* rather than theft. Software bug forgotten password lost device paper wallet burned down in LA fire upgraded device without backing up data . lots of ways for that to happen. Because there's no attacker to go after victims don't have a strong need to talk about it. And often because they see no one to blame but themselves victims will be too ashamed to talk about it. But it happens. Often. And the truly robust wallet security solutions that our ecosystem needs to build should take loss into account too."  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1895358841568506053) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-02-28T06:22Z 5.8M followers, 819.8K 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) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-04-11T01:32Z 5.8M followers, 561.5K engagements


"A fun math aside on the idea of splitting a large zk proving workload between multiple provers. Suppose you have N provers and you have a proving workload that you split into N parts (so one part per prover). You require provers to pre-register but registration is open-access. Suppose you have a constant fault rate (eg. 1/5 of registered provers fail). Provers expect to complete in one round (eg. 3s). If one prover fails other provers have to come in and re-prove that load. How many rounds does it take for the entire workload to get proven Answer: log*(N) (yes that's the iterated-log"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1925251453805027380) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-05-21T18:04Z 5.8M followers, 297.3K engagements


"@TerribleMaps And in the depths of Ethereum research land:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1932074301920063949) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-06-09T13:56Z 5.8M followers, 25.1K engagements


"@crunch1271 @Etherealize_io the bull's name is clearly Case it says so on the poster come on check your reading comprehension"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1935626417825587315) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-06-19T09:11Z 5.8M followers, 195.5K engagements


"Why I used to prefer permissive licenses and now favor copyleft"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1942255280017854572) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-07-07T16:11Z 5.8M followers, 347.4K engagements


"@louisvarge I follow the rules and proudly boast lifetime X missed flights in 2000063 km (not including extra distance from layovers)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1943679417538003029) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-07-11T14:30Z 5.8M followers, 68.6K 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) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-08-11T10:42Z 5.8M followers, 234.1K 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) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-08-11T10:42Z 5.8M followers, 105K engagements


""I support it only if it's open source" should be a more common viewpoint"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1955230186032738534) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-08-12T11:29Z 5.8M followers, 368.4K engagements


"On idea-driven ideas"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1955230245491183760) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-08-12T11:29Z 5.8M followers, 162.3K engagements


".@theanglishtimes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1961819101975724353) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-08-30T15:51Z 5.8M followers, 214.3K engagements


"@louisvarge die medically or information-theoretically I assign nonzero probability to earth - die - cryo - revive - interstellar"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1962340360815870215) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-09-01T02:22Z 5.8M followers, 90K engagements


"@Etherealize_io Appreciate all your hard work for the ecosystem"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1963273021658943924) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-09-03T16:08Z 5.8M followers, 19.9K engagements


"I also love the emphasis on how few lines of code each piece takes. Protocols are not a dirty get-it-out-there thing that you vibe-code where you accept permanent accumulating garbage in the name of short-term convenience. Protocols are a work of art. They should look as such"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1964409399679537450) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-09-06T19:24Z 5.8M followers, 209.9K engagements


"Appreciate everyone who supported Ethereum public goods Likewise to @gitcoin contributors feel free to reply with a similar table @owocki if you happen to have it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1965845486554005769) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-09-10T18:31Z 5.8M followers, 265.5K 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) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-09-13T02:22Z 5.8M followers, 463.3K engagements


"@RobertSagurton @chainyoda Yeah I agree with this. And in general that EF needs to be more active at the UX layer - which has already been happening for the past X months but ramping up takes time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1968473240650793282) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-09-18T00:32Z 5.8M followers, 9117 engagements


"The basic idea: You add storage slots XXXX to the VOPS and you add the option for txs that access anything else in the validation step to add witnesses. The former handles "most txs" efficiently you need the latter for privacy protocols anti-frontrunning and a few other use cases"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1969156244457078913) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-09-19T21:46Z 5.8M followers, 2536 engagements


"Addendum for pedants 😛 Yes stage X means that a security council with a XX% vote can override the onchain code. However stage X also requires that a quorum-blocking (=26%) portion of the council sits outside the org that is managing the L1. Hence the org cannot unilaterally censor or steal via a security council vote so they are not a custodian. See also here for the math on when switching to stage X (even XXX% security council vote cannot override functioning onchain code) makes sense:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1970259242356818394) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-09-22T22:49Z 5.8M followers, 243.3K engagements


"@ConorSvensson @ensdomains @enscribe_ This and use fixed html page UIs on IPFS with onchain version control"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1970820664853741959) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-09-24T12:00Z 5.8M followers, 30.6K engagements


"I think you are misperceiving the situation. What I ask for is quite balanced it's simply that we should have privacy in our digital communications and activities of a similar type that we had for thousands of years (when we had in-person voice conversations used cash for payments etc) It is a minority (far from a majority) in government and tech industry that is pursuing a type of absolutism where they openly use phrases like "there should be no place to hide" seeking a kind of utopia (from their perspective) where they have the ability to see everything and nothing is out of bounds."  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1971774550993228262) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-09-27T03:11Z 5.8M followers, 15.9K engagements


"Yeah I agree that environmentalism is also a great treasure trove of negative examples. It's underappreciated the extent to which even the banal meme that "there are only limited resources in the world" has blood on its hands You have to have sustained moral consensus about the right thing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1972188048096907557) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-09-28T06:34Z 5.8M followers, 2544 engagements


"@ptrschmdtnlsn ok this is a good counterargument"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1974989933120192855) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-10-06T00:07Z 5.8M followers, 24.3K engagements


"@pumatheuma Isn't this mostly just a fancy accounting way to describe in-kind investment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1976163695966478633) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-10-09T05:51Z 5.8M followers, 83.4K engagements


"@CharlotteFang77 milady"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1880723497393201460) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-01-18T21:06Z 5.8M followers, 1.2M engagements


"Simplifying the L1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1918562016329162844) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-05-03T07:03Z 5.8M followers, 1.3M 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) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-07-11T13:45Z 5.8M followers, 221.4K engagements


"Amazing to see @AragonProject leading the way in bringing privacy to governance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1958140875571143101) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-08-20T12:15Z 5.8M followers, 297.2K 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) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-09-05T13:34Z 5.8M followers, 287.2K engagements


"Low-risk defi used to be constrained by regulatory barriers and smart contract safety risks. Both problems have greatly improved. For many people worldwide defi today is in some cases already safer than tradfi"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1969569286550405302) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-09-21T01:08Z 5.8M followers, 162.8K engagements


"Reminder that Peter Thiel is to put it mildly not a cypherpunk"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1973901684226265229) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-10-03T00:03Z 5.8M followers, 924.1K engagements


"@RishiJoeSanu A clear skip-the-nuance position of "analytic philosophy good continental philosophy bad" is imo an underrated take these days"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1974106271487012923) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-10-03T13:36Z 5.8M followers, 26.9K 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) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-10-15T12:07Z 5.8M followers, 822.1K engagements


"@_weidai My ambitious prediction is that eventually we will see single-digit kappa for many real-world computational workloads. We're already there for Poseidon hashing (and therefore the bulk of quantum-resistant cryptography)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1979447608587465212) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-10-18T07:21Z 5.8M followers, 6320 engagements


"A GKR tutorial:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1980063617002426751) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-10-20T00:08Z 5.8M followers, 276.7K engagements


"@chainyoda We need to build tools to democratize actual sustainable long-term wealth building Milady"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1883586184942854309) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-01-26T18:41Z 5.8M followers, 115.6K engagements


"Low-risk defi can be for Ethereum what search was for Google"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1969522612750672132) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-09-20T22:02Z 5.8M followers, 1.9M engagements


"Kohaku code and roadmap Full-stack privacy and security are first-class priorities in Ethereum"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1976200898851504507) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-10-09T08:19Z 5.8M followers, 476.1K engagements


"@luhelminger yeah I would agree that threshold decryption performance should be benchmarked via things like bandwidth reqs and number of network latency rounds and just raw runtime in a deployed setting is more helpful"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1979429416184029502) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-10-18T06:08Z 5.8M followers, 2748 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) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-10-21T01:56Z 5.8M followers, 622.9K engagements


"What in the Ethereum application ecosystem excites me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1599771534003822593) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2022-12-05T14:23Z 5.8M followers, 6854 engagements


"Travel time = distance 0.6"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1646773874065899520) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2023-04-14T07:14Z 5.8M followers, 1M engagements


"I'm really looking forward to Verkle trees. They will enable stateless validator clients which can allow staking nodes to run with near-zero hard disk space and sync nearly instantly - far better solo staking UX. Also good for user-facing light clients"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1759365739671412841) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2024-02-18T23:54Z 5.8M followers, 652.8K engagements


"One application of AI that I am excited about is AI-assisted formal verification of code and bug finding. Right now ethereum's biggest technical risk probably is bugs in code and anything that could significantly change the game on that would be amazing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1759369749887332577) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2024-02-19T00:10Z 5.8M followers, 3.6M engagements


"I feel like X years ago I completely agreed and my high-level argument was something like "infrastructure is public goods the incentive to fund public goods is N times smaller than optimal (that's basic econ 101) so it's practically impossible for there to be too much infrastructure". The problem though is that "infrastructure" is a diverse category and some infrastructure is public goods while other infrastructure is realistically a zero-sum network effect grabbing game. Today it feels like some categories of infrastructure are way over-invested and others are still very under-loved."  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1763930552544133214) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2024-03-02T14:13Z 5.8M followers, 565.1K engagements


"Degen communism: the only correct political ideology"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1774796986732187715) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2024-04-01T13:52Z 5.8M followers, 895.9K engagements


"Privacy is normal. Railgun uses the privacy pools protocol ( ) which makes it much harder for bad actors to join the pool without compromising users' privacy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1779845886224253369) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2024-04-15T12:15Z 5.8M followers, 1.9M 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) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2024-04-28T15:38Z 5.8M followers, 3M engagements


"Layer 2s as cultural extensions of Ethereum"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1795854272900280710) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2024-05-29T16:26Z 5.8M followers, 1.7M engagements


"Some reflections on the Bitcoin block size war"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1796460519542378669) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2024-05-31T08:35Z 5.8M followers, 968K engagements


"@and_khamoo Many in the Ethereum ecosystem love Moodeng. Happy to also meet Moodeng's good friends at the zoo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1858881475606966476) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2024-11-19T14:34Z 5.8M followers, 941.8K 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) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2024-12-12T06:56Z 5.8M followers, 770.1K engagements


"Deep funding combines two ideas: X. Value as a graph: instead of asking "how much did X contribute to humanity" ask "how much of the credit for Y belongs to X" X. Distilled human judgement: an open market of AIs fills in all the weights human jury randomly spot-checks them (1) has been a growing paradigm recently for good reason. Contribution is hard to measure in the abstract: if you ask people how much they would pay to save N birds they answer $XX for N=2000 and N=200000. "Local" questions like "is A or B more valuable to C" are much more tractable. (2) is based on ideas in my info finance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1867886974058520820) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2024-12-14T10:58Z 5.8M followers, 758.2K 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) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2024-12-26T11:53Z 5.8M followers, 1.5M 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) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-01-18T15:16Z 5.8M followers, 7.4M engagements


"Fighting consumes energy and brings people to the breaking point. This is part of the condition of life. Do I feel good when I hear people from crypto twitter and VC firms telling me that PvP KOL degen casino that's money-losing for XX% of its own users is the best product market fit that crypto is going to get and it's "condescending and elitist" to wish for something better Or when people with no understanding of the ethereum foundation internals tell me exactly whom I should rip out of the organization and whom I should throw in and on top of that expect it all to get done within X weeks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1887594511414796784) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-02-06T20:09Z 5.8M followers, 1M engagements


"Thank you to everyone to has given their kind support over the last few weeks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1888482937504514380) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-02-09T06:59Z 5.8M followers, 921.6K engagements


"@owocki @ameensol make communism great again Milady"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1889771554512200166) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-02-12T20:20Z 5.8M followers, 4.9M engagements


"@ethereumfndn welcome 45k ETH to the defi machine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1889978850601574802) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-02-13T10:04Z 5.8M followers, 206.1K engagements


"Reasons to have higher L1 gas limits even in an L2-heavy Ethereum"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1890381369806561789) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-02-14T12:43Z 5.8M followers, 611.2K engagements


"I'd say high bandwidth is a more dangerous assumption to make than high compute reqs. The basic reason is if you have a computer you (generally) can expect to keep that computer but an internet connection has no such guarantees. Reasons: * censorship * disruption to internet physical infra (yes starlink too is vulnerable) Also rural environments have much weaker options for connectivity than urban options and often even a lot of money can't bypass that reality whereas with computers you can just buy it and get it delivered once"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1891178728090137066) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-02-16T17:31Z 5.8M followers, 181.7K engagements


"Aya first shared the idea of transitioning from ED of @ethereumfndn to President a year ago. She has accomplished much in her seven years as executive director of the EF. As I see it the role of an ED is to create an environment where others can shine and do their best work and so every success of the EF - the steady execution of Ethereum hard forks client interop workshops Devcon Ethereum's culture and steadfast commitment to its mission and values and more - is in part a result of Aya's stewardship. @AyaMiyagotchi will continue supporting the EF in many of the same ways in her new role."  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1894421753465643265) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-02-25T16:18Z 5.8M followers, 1.2M engagements


"Highly encourage researchers to participate in the Poseidon cryptanalysis program. We are seriously considering migrating Ethereum to the Poseidon hash to optimize zk-prover friendliness so having more information about its security properties is extremely high value"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1894681713613164888) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-02-26T09:31Z 5.8M followers, 430.2K engagements


"AI as the engine humans as the steering wheel:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1895597394407866563) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-02-28T22:10Z 5.8M followers, 336.3K 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) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-03-01T11:00Z 5.8M followers, 1M engagements


"What Ethereum needs is a lot of young blood who shared the cypherpunk vision. All OGs are jaded. Its on the next generation now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1895801873896259819) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-03-01T11:42Z 5.8M followers, 2.6M engagements


"Why I support privacy:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1911740976135086175) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-04-14T11:19Z 5.8M followers, 1.3M engagements


"Privacy was always the true alpha"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1918886402101748123) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-05-04T04:32Z 5.8M followers, 1M engagements


"Welcome to the stage X gang @Starknet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1923988377474330775) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-05-18T06:25Z 5.8M followers, 394.1K engagements


"How to make Ethereum L1 scaling more friendly to users running local nodes for personal use:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1924327024044253547) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-05-19T04:51Z 5.8M followers, 653.4K engagements


"Nordics are walking back the cashless society initiative because their centralized implementation of the concept is too fragile. Cash turns out necessary as a backup. Ethereum needs to be resilient enough and private enough to be able to credibly play this kind of role"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1926616257094091216) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-05-25T12:28Z 5.8M followers, 556.8K engagements


"Ethereum L1 is the world ledger"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1936036966904308203) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-06-20T12:22Z 5.8M followers, 1.1M engagements


"Does digital ID have risks even if it's ZK-wrapped"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1938894130601504846) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-06-28T09:35Z 5.8M followers, 346.9K 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) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-08-08T06:22Z 5.8M followers, 502K 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) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-08-08T11:37Z 5.8M followers, 346.1K engagements


"GPT explanation:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1953782849951138081) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-08-08T11:38Z 5.8M followers, 98.9K engagements


"@blknoiz06 @js_horne @zora The name of the animal is Eth"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1955009182572179833) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-08-11T20:51Z 5.8M followers, 322.8K engagements


"@StarP4t @TerribleMaps Sint Maarten and Curaao"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1955061169284153745) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-08-12T00:18Z 5.8M followers, 6300 engagements


"Top google search result for the phrase is a fascinating restatement and extension of the Condorcet paradox"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1955636988172030176) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-08-13T14:26Z 5.8M followers, 160.5K engagements


"@gakonst moo stands for having a good mood staying moored to your principles taking moocs to skill up your knowledge and going to the moon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1958845037292237058) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-08-22T10:53Z 5.8M followers, 126.5K engagements


"@secparam Metaculus's median date for when quantum computers will break modern cryptography is 2040: Seemingly about a XX% chance it will be before end of 2030"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1960844208790757894) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-08-27T23:17Z 5.8M followers, 32.8K engagements


"The lean Ethereum team has been doing a truly amazing job kicking into gear this year and delivering on all fronts to ensure Ethereum's long-term scaling decentralization and resilience. I expect all of these ideas will be ready to kick into gear at roughly the same time as the short-term scaling roadmap delivers on its key milestones"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1964408512102171006) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-09-06T19:21Z 5.8M followers, 547.9K engagements


"@toghrulmaharram If you don't choose your bridge other people will and they'll probably make you stage X and put themselves as the security council"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1965209382884704760) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-09-09T00:23Z 5.8M followers, 32.1K 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) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-09-19T07:02Z 5.8M followers, 33.7K 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) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-09-21T01:08Z 5.8M followers, 126.4K 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) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-09-22T22:46Z 5.8M followers, 1.7M 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) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-09-24T22:46Z 5.8M followers, 437.3K engagements


"@vickydiamond21 The blob philosophy is that there is no such thing as "invalid data" There is data and then separately there is the algorithm for processing it. If it's an L2 then it generally treats an invalid transaction as a no-op (ie. process it by doing nothing)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1970989506053726281) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-09-24T23:11Z 5.8M followers, 18.4K 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) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-09-27T00:48Z 5.8M followers, 654.6K engagements


"@david_perell Isn't this argument basically the exact opposite of the usual take that traditional life in villages is cohesive because of repeated interactions and urban anonymity erodes this Or how are these two viewpoints compatible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1973914348390400229) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-10-03T00:53Z 5.8M followers, 68.1K engagements


"@pbrody My stack: X. CO2+AQI meter X. nasal barrier spray X. mask (for high-density situations) X. screw-on to turn any water bottle into a nasal irrigator Though ideally we don't need to do any of this and we can just have buildings with natively much better ventilation+filtration"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1974999977652056161) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-10-06T00:47Z 5.8M followers, 80.8K engagements


"The L2 scaling thing is working"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1976809800840495316) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-10-11T00:39Z 5.8M followers, 429K engagements


"@potuz_eth @drakefjustin @gakonst How will your validator attest if the block was sealed just two seconds before I think these ideas are implicitly counting on delayed execution"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1978632950003720378) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-10-16T01:23Z 5.8M followers, 2061 engagements


"Greg Maxwell defends a principled commitment to freedom and open market-based resource allocation against the populist desire to censor the Current Hated Thing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1978643578328137883) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-10-16T02:06Z 5.8M followers, 454.6K engagements


"@BBaconBitz No it's a paragraph written by someone who understands that a good protocol is a work of art"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1978683488023818253) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-10-16T04:44Z 5.8M followers, 4927 engagements


"@AlphaPriest777 @robinhanson @DefenderOfBasic the filter that can be named is not the eternal filter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1978949080790245859) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-10-16T22:20Z 5.8M followers, 2025 engagements


"@imdyingslowly @bryan_caplan me immortality and no AI risk are a pretty sweet deal though I'd be curious about the details of "no tech progress" eg. are we allowed to keep bugfixing the existing starship and eventually actually use it to do Mars colonies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1979400411409977812) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-10-18T04:13Z 5.8M followers, 2469 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) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-10-18T05:28Z 5.8M followers, 265.8K engagements


"Literally yes eg. if we could get world peace and give everyone a pony and make nutritionally complete tasty fruits grow on city trees I'd say slowing down the world's compute by 1.1x is a no-brainer. So the question always is: for a given guarantee how much slowdown is ok before it becomes not sufficiently attractive given the cost"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1979509055845732451) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-10-18T11:25Z 5.8M followers, 4106 engagements


"@socrates1024 @_weidai geometric average of capex dollars per op/sec and joules per op in-cryptography vs raw using best publicly available hardware would be a reasonable first-pass metric"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1979870177836896261) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-10-19T11:20Z 5.8M followers, 4109 engagements


"@_bfarmer @RiscZero @SuccinctLabs @openvm_org @brevis_zk I'll invite @drakefjustin in answer regarding high-throughput ZK proving numbers he's more in-the-weeds on the latest than I am"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1980463505200603351) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-10-21T02:37Z 5.8M followers, 15.4K engagements


"The whole worst-case tx thing really needs to be resolved by bringing proving cost into the gas schedule in a systematic way (and yes that means that we need to bite the bullet on some ops getting 3-10x more expensive so that the whole chain can safely be 3-10x faster just like we did with SLOAD) I know @kevaundray and others have been working on this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1980464134799208779) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-10-21T02:40Z 5.8M followers, 17.5K 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) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2024-10-07T12:03Z 5.8M followers, 2.8M engagements


"@punk6052 @Zac_Aztec @rel_zeta_tech @aztecnetwork May the 4th be with you Milady"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1919177750482432160) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-05-04T23:50Z 5.8M followers, 54K 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) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-07-15T09:31Z 5.8M followers, 616.4K engagements


"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) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-08-06T16:29Z 5.8M followers, 826.2K engagements


"We still do not have full account abstraction. It's not possible to transact from an account without using ECDSA verification unless you go through an intermediary (and intermediary dependency is harmful to privacy and censorship resistance and generally the right to do things without getting permission) eg. you can't be quantum safe without making your account depend on an intermediary to transact you can't make a privacy protocol that does not depend on a (vulnerable) public broadcaster ecosystem There really is a lot of challenging work to be done in getting this right. I just hope we"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1965899175880761605) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-09-10T22:04Z 5.8M followers, 194.1K 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) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-10-02T03:29Z 5.8M followers, 76.9K engagements


"Note that this was from *2007* a decade before his more recent shifts and two years before his quote "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible" (see where he claims to choose freedom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1973901686205993022) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-10-03T00:03Z 5.8M followers, 164.1K engagements


"Second-order effects of it being near-free to have your car keep driving around and using the street as a "parking space" are going to be interesting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1976541545567539694) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-10-10T06:53Z 5.8M followers, 561.7K engagements


"This is a good decision and I respect it. Not every business should be trying to appeal to many customers as possible in the name of "not being maximalist". We need the stubborn ones who believe in their cause and their tribe and see their work as a labor of love to it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1977229514477650163) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-10-12T04:27Z 5.8M followers, 429.8K engagements


"Dankrad has been an excellent researcher and has made immensely valuable contributions to the Ethereum that we know and love today including Danksharding consensus research and much more. Wishing him luck in his new efforts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1979140260622930348) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-10-17T10:59Z 5.8M followers, 319.9K engagements


"@_weidai A core part of the reason why is The bulk of the computation will be structured operations that can be proven directly not inside a VM"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1979447818529173852) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-10-18T07:21Z 5.8M followers, 4884 engagements


"@captgouda24 Mainstream econ should take more victory laps over congestion pricing and especially housing legalization"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1980538458491039874) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-10-21T07:35Z 5.8M followers, 12.6K engagements


"@odin_free @sandeepnailwal @0xPolygon @Polymarket starknet brother"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1980539391744614637) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-10-21T07:39Z 5.8M followers, 22.2K engagements


"@WolfNationNFT @odin_free @sandeepnailwal @0xPolygon @Polymarket information technology"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1980539425382944942) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-10-21T07:39Z 5.8M followers, 1355 engagements


"Re-upping my article from 2021 addressing this and some possible solutions: @_futarchy is one example of category X (skin in the game for governance). There's still a bribeable governance layer for the utility function but at least it's more indirect so you can't just go and pay dollars to achieve a specific outcome. Bribe mechanisms are going to happen you can't stop them on an open system - and so we need to design our governance to be maximally robust to them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1883972053570568489) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-01-27T20:15Z 5.8M followers, 687.6K 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) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-08-13T14:23Z 5.8M followers, 506K engagements


"The importance of full-stack openness and verifiability (including applications operating systems hardware and bio)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1970672306520543721) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-09-24T02:11Z 5.8M followers, 371.9K 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) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-10-10T03:29Z 5.8M followers, 730K engagements


"I think we should hard-fork to delete the modexp precompile and replace it with native code written in whatever the next VM will be (RISC-V or otherwise) so existing apps that use it would not break but would take some performance hit. The number of modexp users is very small the constant difficulty and pain (including near-miss consensus failures) it imposes on the ethereum ecosystem is large. Building an Ethereum implementation (direct execution or ZK) should not be a year-long project with XXX different corner cases that require custom optimizations"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1980472920230224103) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-10-21T03:15Z 5.8M followers, 1900 engagements


"@inversebrah @odin_free @sandeepnailwal @0xPolygon @Polymarket @VitalikButerin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1980568632553009430) [@VitalikButerin](/creator/x/VitalikButerin) 2025-10-21T09:35Z 5.8M followers, 17K engagements