Ethereum must innovate beyond just DApps for DeFi degens: Vitalik Buterin

Ethereum must innovate beyond just DApps for DeFi degens: Vitalik Buterin

As second layer scaling matures for Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin urges the community to grow beyond the confines of DeFi. During his keynote at the EthCC conference in Paris, Ethereum co-founder and lead developer Vitalik Buterin implored the Ethereum community to innovate beyond the confines of decentralized finance.Describing non-financial utilities as “the most interesting part of the vision of general-purpose blockchains,” Buterin lamented that financial applications currently “dominate the Ethereum space.”“Being defined by DeFi is better than being defined by nothing. But it needs to go....


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