Ethereum (ETH) Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin Says There Are Lessons To Learn From The FTX Collapse

In the wake of FTX’s implosion, Vitalik Buterin has shared lessons the crypto industry needs to learn.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin with a college graduation cap behind a person rising a hand

In the wake of FTX’s implosion, Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum has shared lessons the crypto industry needs to learn from the meltdown while highlighting its heavy impact on the industry.

The problem is Not the Technology

Vitalik Buterin, weighing in on the FTX collapse, said that the problem lies in people, not technology. Buterin acknowledged the stability of cryptoโ€™s so-called technology, the blockchain, through the collapse.

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Buterin, who has spoken against dismissing everything FTX’s CEO Sam Bankman-Fried did despite ‘fraud,’ adds that the blockchain-based layers and decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols worked โ€œflawlessly.โ€ย 

Although Buterin labeled the FTX collapse as a โ€œhuge tragedy,โ€ the Ethereum co-founder notes that the disaster contains lessons for all of crypto.

The Collapse Increases Claims for Decentralization

According to Buterin, the collapse of FTX validates the claims of many in the Ethereum community that “centralized anything is by default suspect,โ€ with many calling for decentralization.ย 

Buterin adds that the FTX saga has led to many in the crypto community putting their trust in โ€œopen and transparent code above individual humans.โ€

On the Flipside

  • Although stating that FTX’s collapse was due to fraud, Buterin has defended SBF saying that “automatically downgrading every single thing SBF believed in is an error.”

Why You Should Care

Over the weekend, Buterin also posted a guide to having a โ€œsafe CEXโ€ with proof of insolvency. Binance is already working with the guidelines.

This article is for information purposes only and should not be considered trading or investment advice. Nothing herein shall be construed as financial, legal, or tax advice. Trading forex, cryptocurrencies, and CFDs pose a considerable risk of loss.

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Milko Trajcevski

Milko Trajcevski is a DailyCoin news reporter, mainly focused on Ethereum (ETH), Cardano (ADA), and their founders (Vitalik Buterin and Charles Hoskinson). Milko is an avid follower of crypto and blockchain technology and has written thousands of articles on the subjects. He finds joy in transforming complex issues into written content that anyone can understand. Milko has used and analyzed numerous exchanges, such as Coinbase, FTX, and Binance. He also closely follows all of the latest news around the largest decentralized exchanges (DEXs). Location: Skopje, Macedonia

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