Vitalik: Crypto Needs Financial Tools That Grow Wealth, Not Reckless Leverage Bets

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin distinguished between "the open web" and "the sovereign web" in Farcaster post, urging developers to build privacy-preserving applications and wealth-building tools without dangerous leverage while criticizing "corposlop" corporate platforms optimizing for engagement and data extraction at users' expense through walled gardens and dopamine-maximizing algorithms.