In response to the statement that "Ethereum's self-renewal requires generational/talent replacement. And the next generation needs to be rooted in Ethereum values (such as cypherpunk)," Vitalik Buterin replied at Warpass, saying, "I actually believe that the growth of the application layer is the period when good social philosophy is most needed. For example, suppose C++was developed by a totalitarian racist fascist. Could it be a worse language? Maybe not. C++is universal, and there is not much room for bad social philosophy to destroy it (or for good social philosophy to improve it). Ethereum Layer-1 is not entirely like this: those who do not believe in decentralization will not add lightweight clients, FOCIL, or (well formed) account abstractions; People who don't mind energy waste won't spend five years migrating to PoS... but regardless, the opcode for EVM may be roughly the same. Therefore, Ethereum may be 50% universal. About 80% of applications are dedicated. The type of application you build largely depends on your ideas about what Ethereum applications (and Ethereum as a whole) will do for the world. Therefore, having good ideas on this topic becomes crucial
In addition, Vitalik listed some good applications such as Railgun Farcaster、Polymarket、Signal， Bad examples include Pump.fun Terra/Luna、FTX。 It believes that the differences in application functionality stem from developers holding different beliefs about the goals they want to achieve.
