The end of my childhood

Vitalek Buterin reflecting on his own role in the crypto ecosystem, and how crypto itself is evolving and maturing.

Is the original "story" of crypto falling further and further behind the times?

There are two sensible responses to this conundrum, and I believe that our ecosystem would benefit from embracing both of them:

1. Remind people that money and finance still do matter, and do a good job of serving the world's underserved in that niche.
2. Extend beyond finance, and use our technology to build a more holistic vision of an alternative, more free and open and democratic tech stack, and how that could build toward either a broadly better society, or at least tools to help those who are excluded from mainstream digital infrastructure today.

I enjoyed reading this and Vitalek's personality comes through in the writing. Amongst many other things, Vitalek is a great blogger.

I also liked Vitalik's references to several new and established decentralized services: ENS, Skiff, Status, Fleek, Lens, Farcaster, and of course POAP.