On February 4th, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated that the current Creator Coin ecosystem excessively rewards fame and traffic, and should be improved through a combination of prediction markets and Creator DAOs. He suggested establishing small-scale Creator DAOs (no more than 200 people) around specific themes, with members anonymously voting to decide the addition and removal of new creators; at the same time, introducing prediction markets would allow market participants to bet on which creators will be accepted by the DAO.
Vitalik believes this mechanism can transform speculative behavior into "predictions about high-quality creators," preventing creator tokens from falling into a purely recursive speculative game. It also strengthens token value by using DAO revenue to buy back and burn tokens belonging to accepted creators. He emphasizes that the final decision should rest with creators who truly produce high-quality content, not speculators.
This viewpoint has sparked industry discussion, with some questioning the creator token model itself, while others believe that the two-tier structure, while maintaining decentralization, introduces necessary content filtering mechanisms, which helps anchor the token value to real contributions and long-term income.
