- Vitalik Buterin has published a new proposal for Ethereum.
- The proposal aims to make the network’s concept of alignment clear.
- Vitalik highlighted four starting points to further this goal.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has published an article with proposals to address the challenge of balancing Ethereum application developers, client teams, researchers, layer 2 teams, and local community groups to foster a unified ecosystem.
The article noted that the Ethereum alignment concept has historically been poorly defined, creating a risk of social layer capture, especially when interpreted as having the “right friends.” To solve this challenge, Vitalik argued that the concept should be clear, simplified into specific properties, and represented by certain metrics.
Vitalik’s Proposal
Noting that each project’s list of items could be different and that metrics would inevitably change over time, Vitalik highlighted four “solid starting points,” which he believed would make Ethereum projects compete to be as aligned as possible instead of competing to have the right friends.
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The proposals included open-source development to guarantee security, reduce the risk of proprietary lock-in, and enable permissionless third-party improvements. This would be complemented by the second proposal: building on open standards to improve interoperability with the Ethereum ecosystem.
“If you want to introduce a new feature that is not well-served by existing standards, write a new ERC in collaboration with others. Applications and wallets can be rated by which ERCs they are compatible with.” The article read.The other proposals encouraged projects to minimize centralized infrastructure dependency and strive to achieve positive-sum outcomes toward the Ethereum ecosystem and the broader world. Per Vitalik, the latter can be achieved through using ETH as a token to contribute to the network’s effect and building applications that bring sustainable values to humanity, such as financial inclusion.
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