{"id":127112,"date":"2025-04-14T03:20:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T03:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=127112"},"modified":"2025-04-14T03:20:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T03:20:19","slug":"vitalik-buterin-says-the-app-layer-needs-good-social-philosophy-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=127112","title":{"rendered":"Vitalik Buterin says the app layer needs \u2018good social philosophy\u2019 most"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsEthereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin argues it\u2019s Ethereum\u2019s application layer, not its infrastructure layer, where Ethereum needs \u201cgood social philosophy\u201d the most.<br \/>\nThe app layer is where developers build decentralized applications on top of Ethereum\u2019s base infrastructure and where they make decisions about how these programs operate.\u00a0<br \/>\nIn an April 12 post on the social media platform Warpcast, Buterin responded to a user\u2019s argument that Ethereum needs a new generation of developers rooted in Ethereum\u2019s core values to renew itself. He argued that it\u2019s the app layer that needs this more.<br \/>\n\u201cApps are 80% special purpose. What apps you build depends heavily on what ideas you have of what Ethereum apps, and Ethereum as a whole, are there to do for the world. And so having good ideas on this topic out there becomes crucially important,\u201d Buterin said.\u00a0<br \/>\nSource: Vitalik ButerinIn comparison, Buterin says a programming language like C++ may not be as influenced by the creator\u2019s ideology, as it is a general-purpose tool that doesn\u2019t have much surface to be made worse or improved by social philosophy.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cImagine that C++ had been made by a totalitarian racist fascist. Would it be a worse language? Probably not,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nEthereum\u2019s layer 1 is similar to an extent, argued Buterin, though it is more exposed to philosophical influence, citing its move to proof-of-stake (PoS) and supporting light clients as examples.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cSomeone who doesn\u2019t believe in decentralization would not add light clients, or good forms of account abstraction,\u201d he said.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cSomeone who doesn\u2019t mind energy waste would not spend half a decade moving to PoS, but the Ethereum Virtual Machine opcodes might have been roughly the same either way. So Ethereum is perhaps 50% general-purpose,\u201d Buterin added.\u00a0<br \/>\nApps with good social philosophy vs bad\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nIn a follow-up post, Buterin told a user that in his opinion, crypto privacy protocol Railgun, Web3 social protocol Farcaster, decentralized prediction market Polymarket and messenger app Signal are examples of apps with a good social philosophy.\u00a0<br \/>\nSource: Vitalik Buterin\u201cYou build apps that do the right thing behind the scenes by default. Signal is a reasonably good example of this, though it has significant flaws of its own. Farcaster is also a good example of this,\u201d Buterin said.<br \/>\nRelated: Vitalik Buterin criticizes crypto\u2019s moral shift toward gambling<br \/>\nOn the other hand, Buterin said the memecoin platform Pump.fun, the collapsed crypto ecosystem Terra, its native token Terra (LUNA), and the\u00a0collapsed crypto exchange FTX\u00a0are examples of bad social philosophy.<br \/>\n\u201cThe differences in what the app does stem from differences in beliefs in developers\u2019 heads about what they are here to accomplish,\u201d he said.\u00a0<br \/>\nMagazine: Bitcoin eyes $100K by June, Shaq to settle NFT lawsuit, and more: Hodler\u2019s Digest, April 6 \u2013 12<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/vitalik-buterin-argues-app-layer-needs-devs-good-social-philosophy?utm_source=rss_feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsEthereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin argues it\u2019s Ethereum\u2019s application layer, not its infrastructure layer, where Ethereum needs \u201cgood social philosophy\u201d the most. 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