🤖ETH NEWS: VITALIK BUTERIN URGES ETHEREUM BUILDERS TO FOCUS ON SANCTUARY TECHNOLOGIESIn a detailed post on X, the $ETH founder called for the platform to move beyond its financial roots and take on a broader mission of building open systems he referred to as "sanctuary technologies" that would shield users from the expanding reach of AI, government and corporate surveillance, as well as geopolitical instabilityHe stated that currently Ethereum seems to be absent from "meaningfully improving the lives of peo ...

Over the past year, many people I talk to have expressed worry about two topics:* Various aspects of the way the world is going: government control and surveillance, wars, corporate power and surveillance, tech enshittification / corposlop, social media becoming a memetic warzone, AI and how it interplays with all of the above...* The brute reality that Ethereum seems to be absent from meaningfully improving the lives of people subject to these things, even on the dimensions we deeply care about (eg. freedo ...