Vitalik: Ethereum needs to carve out a unique value track with "resilience"

PANews reported on January 5th that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated that in the existing system, optimizations in efficiency and convenience are merely minor improvements, but Silicon Valley giants have already monopolized this game, and we cannot compete with them. Ethereum must find a different path—resilience. Resilience is not about pursuing higher returns, but about avoiding devastating blows: when faced with bans, developers disappearing, cloud service crashes, or cyberwars, the system can still maintain a 2000ms latency; when anyone in the world connects to the network, they can become an equal sovereign participant. This resilience is not a UN seat or a Davos handshake of "sovereignty," but digital sovereignty—granting autonomy to the world's computers and their users by eliminating arbitrary dependence on external forces. It makes equal interdependence possible, rather than becoming a vassal of multinational corporations. This is the track where Ethereum can win; in a turbulent world, the value it provides is increasingly needed by many. Web2 technology is unrelated to resilience; the resilience of traditional finance is only for specific risks. While blockchain space is abundant, decentralized, permissionless, and resilient blockchain space is scarce. Ethereum must first become such a space before achieving scalability.