The Ethereum co-founder has repeatedly spoken this year about treating privacy as a basic necessity for digital systems.

• Following a recent data breach involving major US banks, where client information from institutions including JPMorgan, Citi, and Morgan Stanley may have been exposed after a cyberattack on mortgage technology vendor SitusAMC, Buterin responded by describing privacy as a form of “hygiene.”
• Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said end-to-end encrypted messaging is essential for protecting digital privacy, identifying permissionless account creation and metadata privacy as the next major priorities for the sector.

He pointed to Session and SimpleX as two projects working on these areas and disclosed that he has donated 128 ETH to each of them.

Major ETH Donations

• In a post on X this week, Buterin said both applications are attempting to strengthen decentralization and enhance user protections without relying on phone numbers, while also addressing challenges such as multi-device support and resistance to Sybil or denial-of-service attacks.
• Buterin said the donation addresses are publicly available on the projects’ websites and added that, although the platforms are not yet perfect, they represent active efforts to advance privacy-preserving communication.
• He also called for more developers to help tackle the technical problems that still remain, and added that these issues “need more eyes on them.”
• It is important to note that while Signal has emerged as a widely used encrypted messaging app, it faced renewed scrutiny following a March incident in which senior US national security officials accidentally included a reporter in a Signal group discussing strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen.
• Days later, a Pentagon-wide advisory warned against using the app for any non-public information, citing a vulnerability tied to its linked-devices feature.
• The memo said Russian hacking groups were targeting the users of the app through phishing tactics. Signal later attributed the issue to user-targeted attacks rather than problems with its encryption, and that the company had already implemented safeguards and warnings.

Buterin’s Privacy Push

• In an essay published in April, he argued that “privacy is an important guarantor of decentralization” and outlined a path for Ethereum to support stealth addresses, selective disclosure, and application-level zero-knowledge tools to help reduce unnecessary data exposure.
• More recently, he warned that X’s new geo-inference system, which assigns country labels to user accounts, poses privacy risks.

He said such systems can still reveal sensitive location information and may endanger vulnerable users, even when only broad regions are disclosed.

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n a landmark Bankless interview marking Ethereum's 10th anniversary, co-founder Vitalik Buterin unveiled his comprehensive roadmap transforming Ethereum from "world computer" to "world ledger" - the platform that stores civilization's assets and records.

💰 Key Vision Highlights:

Identity Evolution: Clear pivot to "world ledger" positioning for institutional adoption Privacy Revolution: ZK-powered privacy becomes DEFAULT, not optional Massive Scaling: 10,000 TPS on Layer 1 through ZK-proof verification Treasury Strategy: Cautious support for ETH treasury companies worth $12B

🎯 Technical Roadmap:

1️⃣ ZK-EVM Integration: Complete within one year for simplified verification 2️⃣ Privacy-by-Default: Direct wallet integration eliminating specialized privacy apps 3️⃣ Protocol Simplification: Reduced complexity while preserving programmability 4️⃣ Gas Limit Scaling: Progressive increases toward 10,000 TPS capacity

🏆 Revolutionary Features Coming:

Privacy Wallets: Seamless public/private balance management in MetaMask Scalable Privacy Pools: Exclude bad actors while protecting legitimate users Cross-L2 Interoperability: Minutes instead of hours for withdrawals Hardware Accessibility: Even "$7 Raspberry Pi" can validate ZK-proofs

💡 Strategic Insights:

Barbell Strategy: L1 optimized for security, L2 for performance and UX Quantum Resistance: Post-quantum cryptography implementation planned Cypherpunk Renaissance: Return to original privacy-focused values Conservative Leverage: Warning against overleveraged ETH treasury risks

🔥 Market Implications:

With BlackRock endorsing Ethereum as the "master ledger for the world" and 3.04 million ETH ($12B) held by treasury companies, Buterin's vision positions Ethereum as foundational global infrastructure while maintaining decentralized ethos.

The transition from experimental platform to civilization-scale registry represents the next phase of blockchain adoption - moving beyond speculation toward real economic utility.

Read the complete technical analysis and implementation timeline: 👇 https://blog.jucoin.com/vitalik-buterin-ethereum-world-ledger-vision/

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Meme projects often transfer tokens to the wallets of famous people in the industry hoping they will "hold" them for advertising purposes. Like yesterday, a meme project transferred tokens to Vitalik's wallet for advertising, but as soon as it was transferred to his wallet, he dumped them and earned 15k dollars. In March 2023, he also dumped tokens of several projects with a value of up to 700k USDT.

Vitalik Buterin not only never Shill Memecoin, Shitcoin but also clearly criticized these projects. When Pump.fun was born, he immediately said "it is a bad example of what should not be built in the crypto space". Because Vitalik is often emotional. In Vitalik, we trust👇

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