TechFlow News, February 5: Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum’s founder, recently criticized the blockchain industry’s current trend of excessively replicating EVM chains, calling it “stifling innovation and leading the industry into a dead end.” He stressed that developers should build projects delivering substantive innovation—such as enhanced privacy, application-specific efficiency, or ultra-low latency—rather than simply copying existing technologies and adding optimistic bridges.
Buterin also emphasized that a project’s degree of connectivity with Ethereum should be genuine and proposed two valuable application-chain architectures: first, application chains deeply dependent on Ethereum, maximizing interoperability with other Ethereum applications; second, institutional L2s achieving algorithmic transparency via on-chain Merkle roots and zero-knowledge proofs.
“Do something that truly brings new value to the ecosystem—and ensure your marketing matches reality,” Buterin concluded.
