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Solana Labs CEO Anatoly Yakovenko said Solana fees could fund AI-assisted development to write and improve Solana’s codebase in the future. Solana Labs CEO Anatoly Yakovenko said he wants Solana to be a constantly evolving network, continuously updating to meet the changing needs of users, contrasting with Vitalik Buterin’s vision of Ethereum as a self-sustaining blockchain. “Solana needs to never stop iterating. It shouldn’t depend on any single group or individual to do so, but if it ever stops changing to fit the needs of its devs and users, it will die,” Yakovenko stated in a post to X on Saturday. His remarks were in response to a post from Buterin, who said Ethereum needs to reach a point where it passes the “walkaway test,” meaning it becomes self-sustainable without developer influence for decades to come. Read more

Ethereum trades above $3,312 as ETFs add $474M and Buterin’s 2026 roadmap boosts confidence. Breakout toward $3,405 possible. The post Ethereum Price Prediction: ETH Above $3,312 as ETFs Add $474M and Buterin’s Roadmap Inspires appeared first on Cryptonews.

Vitalik Buterin wants improved private payments, easier running of full nodes, decentralized apps that don’t rely on centralized services, and more on-chain privacy. The Ethereum ecosystem’s core values of decentralization, privacy and self-sovereignty have been sacrificed in pursuit of mainstream adoption and that trend must stop now, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said. “2026 is the year that we take back lost ground in terms of self-sovereignty and trustlessness,” Buterin posted to X on Friday: To reverse that trend, Buterin wants to see improved private payments, lower the barrier to entry for users to run full nodes and decentralized apps that don’t run on centralized servers. Read more

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has just donated over $760,000 in Ether to two projects he says are pushing digital privacy forward. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has disclosed a donation of approximately $760,000 in Ether to two crypto messaging apps that he views as pushing the boundaries of digital privacy.  Encrypted messaging apps, like Signal, are “important for preserving our digital privacy,” Buterin said in an X post on Wednesday, adding the next steps for the space should be permissionless account creation and metadata privacy. Decentralized messaging apps Session and SimpleX Chat are “pushing these directions forward,” Buterin said, adding that he “donated 128 ETH to each” and encouraged users to try them.  Read more

Uniswap founder Hayden Adams said X's new feature showing the country that an account is based in was a form of “mandatory doxing.” Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has said a new feature rolled out by X revealing an account holder’s country was “risky,” agreeing with crypto users who flagged privacy concerns over the feature.  X director of product Nikita Bier announced the feature was rolled out on Saturday, framing it as a way to ensure the integrity of the platform and allow users to verify information. Buterin said on Sunday that some accounts will eventually “find ways to pretend to be from countries that they are not,” but initially thought the change could have positive effects, such as increased visibility into how people from different communities feel about various issues. Read more

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin weighed in on the growing debate over prediction markets, warning that the absence of interest-bearing mechanisms makes them unappealing for risk-averse traders. In a post on Farcaster, Buterin said the lack of yield forces participants to sacrifice guaranteed returns elsewhere, such as the 4% annual yield available on dollars, just to […] The post Buterin flags yield gap in prediction markets as debate over their role intensifies appeared first on CryptoSlate.