ChainCatcher reports that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated that in the existing system, efficiency and convenience optimizations 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 catastrophic blows: when faced with bans, developers disappearing, cloud service crashes, or cyberwars, the system can still maintain a latency of 2000ms; and when anyone in the world connects to the network, they can become an equal sovereign participant.
This resilience isn't about a UN seat or a handshake at Davos—it's about digital sovereignty—granting autonomy to the world's computers and their users by eliminating arbitrary dependence on external forces. It enables equal interdependence, rather than subservience to multinational corporations. This is the track where Ethereum can win; in a turbulent world, the value it provides is increasingly needed. Web2 technology has nothing to do with 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 scaling.
