Vitalik published a new article: "Making Ethereum's Alignment Clearly Visible"
ChainCatcher news, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik published an article titled "Making Ethereum's Alignment Visible," discussing how to balance Ethereum client teams, researchers, Layer 2 teams, application developers, and local community groups to ensure that all these projects collectively build a unified Ethereum ecosystem, introducing the concept of "Ethereum alignment."This can include value alignment (e.g., open source, minimizing centralization, supporting public goods), technical alignment (e.g., adopting ecosystem-wide standards), and economic alignment (e.g., using ETH as a token as much as possible). Vitalik analyzes from the perspectives of open source, open standards, decentralization and security, and positive-sum outcomes, with the ideal goal of seeing more entities like L2beat emerge to track various projects' performance in meeting the above standards and other standards proposed by the community. Instead of competing for connections, projects should compete on alignment based on easily understandable standards."Dashboard organizations" like L2beat, block explorers, and other ecosystem monitoring tools are a great example of this principle successfully operating within the Ethereum ecosystem. If the different aspects of alignment can be made clearer without focusing on a single "overseer," this concept can be made more effective and better serve the fairness and inclusivity that the Ethereum ecosystem strives for.
