On April 13, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin responded to “the community’s self-renewal of Ethereum requires generation/talent replacement, and the next generation needs to be rooted in Ethereum’s values ​​(such as crypt punk). “I actually think that the growth of the application layer requires good social philosophy to support. For example: Assume that C++ was developed by a totalitarian racist fascist. Will it be a worse language? Probably not. C++ is universal and there is not much room for a bad social philosophy to undermine it (or let good social philosophy improve it). Ethereum Layer-1 is not exactly the case: people who don’t believe in decentralization won’t add light client, FOCIL, or (good form) account abstraction; people who don’t mind energy wasting will not spend five years migrating to PoS. But anyway, EVM The opcodes for this may be roughly the same. So, 50% of Ethereum are likely to be universal. Apps are about 80% dedicated. What kind of application you build depends heavily on your idea of ​​what the Ethereum DApp (and Ethereum as a whole) will do for the world. So it becomes crucial to have a good idea on this topic."

Vitalik cited some examples of applications, believing that good applications such as Railgun, Farcaster, Polymarket, Signal, while bad applications such as Pump.fun, Terra/Luna, and FTX are different due to developers' different beliefs about their goals.