ChainCatcher news, Vitalik posted on X: "I am happy to be Moo Deng's adoptive father. Over the next two years, she will grow up, and I will donate 10 million Thai Baht to support her, and perhaps I will donate more, as I have reserved 88 ETH for Moo Deng and her friends. May they live long and healthy lives."Previous news, Vitalik donated 10 million Thai Baht to Khao Kheow Zoo in Thailand, which will develop a dedicated exhibition area for Moo Deng.

ChainCatcher news, Thailand's Khao Kheow Open Zoo posted on X that Vitalik Buterin has donated funds to support the zoo's operations, wildlife funding programs, and to develop a dedicated exhibition area for Moo Deng and its family.The donation will be made in two installments, each amounting to 5,000,000 Thai Baht, totaling 10 million Thai Baht. The first donation will be completed on December 26, 2024. The date for the second donation and any additional donation amounts will be announced later, but no later than December 26, 2025.Vitalik expressed hope that this donation will strengthen the friendship with Thailand and contribute to the local community.According to data from gmgn.ai, the current price of MOODENG is $0.00021, with a 24h increase of 68.6%.

ChainCatcher news, Ethereum Foundation member Devansh Mehta announced that the AI-based project donation amount prediction competition has officially started. Participants are required to predict the relative funding ratios among 1023 groups of projects based on the provided 2387 training comparison data. This competition serves as a warm-up for the official contest at the end of January, which will involve 4303 Ethereum repositories and their dependent projects.Devansh Mehta stated that Vitalik will fund this event with $20,000, and the contributions of participants may influence the funding methods for future open-source projects, gaining recognition from the community and Ethereum developers.

ChainCatcher news, regarding recent AGI-related product developments in the field of OpenAI and AI, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin posted on the X platform, "My definition of AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) is: AGI is a sufficiently powerful artificial intelligence that, if one day all humans suddenly disappear and this AI is uploaded into a robotic body, it will be able to independently continue civilization.Clearly, this is a very difficult definition to measure, but I think it captures the core of the intuitive distinction between 'the AI we are used to' and 'AGI' in many people's minds. It marks a shift from a tool that constantly relies on human input to a self-sufficient form of life. ASI (Artificial Superintelligence) is a completely different matter—my definition is when humans no longer add value to productivity in the loop (like in board games, we actually only reached this point in the past decade).Yes, ASI scares me—even the AGI I defined scares me because it brings obvious risks of losing control. I advocate focusing our work on building intelligence-enhancing tools for humans, rather than creating superintelligent life forms."

ChainCatcher message, Ethereum founder Vitalik responded to X user @yishan's tweet asking "Reply with some things you used to strongly believe in but changed your mind about as you learned more" by saying: I no longer focus on mathematics and cryptographic protocols like I did 10 years ago; now I use mathematics to make rough initial guesses and try to avoid the worst-case scenarios, rather than explaining behavior in average cases.Vitalik's interest in economics is also waning, as he wrote: I spent a lot of time in the first five years of the crypto world trying to invent a mathematically provable optimal governance mechanism, but ultimately found that what I was looking for was impossible to achieve. The most important variables that determine whether existing flawed systems succeed or fail in practice (usually the level of coordination among subgroups of participants, but also factors of "culture") were variables I did not model or consider at the time.

ChainCatcher message, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated on social media, "Deep Funding combines two ideas:Value Graph: Instead of asking 'How much does X contribute to humanity?', it's better to ask 'How much of Y's contribution is attributed to X?'Refining Human Judgment: An open AI market provides all weight allocation suggestions, which are then verified by a randomly sampled human jury.The first idea (Value Graph) has gradually become a popular paradigm in recent years, and the reasons are quite compelling. It is very difficult to measure contributions abstractly: if you ask people how much they would be willing to pay to save N birds, they might respond that it is $80 when N=2000 and also $80 when N=200000. Questions like 'Which is more valuable for C, A or B?' are much easier to handle.The second idea (Refining Human Judgment) is based on some thoughts from my info finance article: the condensation of human judgment in information finance. Anyone can use any method (like AI) to suggest weights for all graph edges, and a human jury conducts a detailed analysis of randomly sampled edges. Ultimately, the submission that is most compatible with the jury's answers determines the final output."

ChainCatcher news, Vitalik praised Tencent's Hunyuan model on his social platform and showcased an AI video created using the model, where a bull slowly approaches under the Ethereum LODO.It is reported that Tencent's Hunyuan model officially launched its video generation capability on December 3.

ChainCatcher news, Vitalik praised Tencent's Hunyuan model on his social platform and showcased an AI video created using this model, where a bull slowly approaches under the Ethereum LODO.It is reported that Tencent's Hunyuan model officially launched its video generation capability on December 3.

ChainCatcher news, the HashKey Gala Day co-hosted by HashKey Global and Blocktempo was held today during Taiwan Blockchain Week, featuring the Taiwan premiere of the documentary "Vitalik: The Story of Ethereum."Tim Xing, Board of Director of HashKey Global, and Francis Li, Head of Architect of HashKey Chain, along with well-known local professors, prosecutors, and lawyers attended the event and shared important stories about HashKey and the early development of Ethereum.HashKey executives stated that the team became aware of the Ethereum project in 2014 and funded the Ethereum Foundation with $500,000 in 2015 to help address cash flow issues at the time. This crucial funding played an important role in the timely launch of the Ethereum mainnet, becoming a legendary chapter in blockchain history.The event also featured the first screening of the documentary "Vitalik: The Story of Ethereum" for the Taiwanese community. This film chronicles the journey of Vitalik Buterin and the Ethereum community in their fight for an open internet. Notably, this documentary completed the largest crowdfunding in blockchain history in 2021, raising 1,036 Ether, providing ample budget support for the film's production.

ChainCatcher message, regarding Google CEO Sundar Pichai's announcement of the new generation quantum computing chip Willow, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik commented and asked, "What is the largest semiprime you can factor?"Additionally, in response to a question from a user in the comments section about "how to formulate a plan to lead in quantum-resistant cryptography and integrate it with current blockchains (like Ethereum)?", Vitalik replied, "This question has been widely discussed in a recent blog post."

ChainCatcher news, Celestia co-founder Nick White posted on social media, "The core of blockchain is verifiability, aimed at freeing us from committees and intermediaries. A more decentralized committee is still a committee."Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin commented on social media, "If Ethereum abandons verifiability and accepts committees and centralized intermediaries as the solution to everything, I would consider it no longer Ethereum.In addition to verifiability, I would also add highly democratized participation."

ChainCatcher message, Vitalik praised Polygon for being able to maintain stability (low fees) and supporting important applications like Polymarket in a tweet reply.

ChainCatcher message, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published a latest blog post detailing his vision for the ideal crypto wallet. The article focuses on security and privacy, proposing key features such as cross-L2 transaction experience, account security, fraud prevention, and data wallets.Regarding cross-L2 transactions, Vitalik suggests adopting chain-specific address formats (e.g., address@optimism.eth) and recommends that wallets automatically handle cross-chain exchanges and transfer processes. For account security, he advocates for social recovery and multi-signature mechanisms, proposing a 2-of-3 protection scheme for new users, which includes zk-email, local keys, and service provider backup keys.On privacy protection, the article emphasizes the need to integrate features like privacy pools and stealth addresses directly into mainstream wallets to achieve default privacy. In terms of data storage, Vitalik suggests that wallets evolve into personal data storage tools, using an M-of-N key sharing mechanism to protect user data. The article also explores secure chain access mechanisms, recommending the enhancement of wallet security through light clients and private information retrieval (PIR) technology, and calls on developers to adopt on-chain content version control to improve DApp security.

ChainCatcher news, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated in an interview with Wu Blockchain that after the Ethereum main chain was launched in 2015, the foundation was nearly out of funds. Wanxiang purchased 410,000 Ether at a price of $1.20 each, investing a total of $500,000 to support the foundation's development, which may have "saved the foundation's life." Vitalik believes that the idea of large blocks is more correct, but the lack of execution capability is the main reason for its failure. He pointed out that the Bitcoin community is currently too focused on price, and the prospects for technological development are not optimistic.Regarding the Russia-Ukraine war, Vitalik stated that this conflict has completely changed him. After publicly supporting Ukraine, he realized that he might never be able to return to Russia and could even face a 10-15 year prison sentence.As for Ethereum's positioning, Vitalik prefers the concept of a "world computer," believing that it is not just a chain, but an ecosystem that can support various applications.