{"id":89127,"date":"2025-09-22T10:39:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T07:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=89127"},"modified":"2025-09-22T10:40:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T07:40:16","slug":"vitalik-buterin-compares-low-risk-defi-to-googles-search-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/vitalik-buterin-compares-low-risk-defi-to-googles-search-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitalik Buterin Compares Low-Risk DeFi to Google&#8217;s Search Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has identified the low-risk DeFi sector as the primary economic driver of the ecosystem. In his view, it could play a role for the network similar to that of search for Google.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Low-risk defi used to be constrained by regulatory barriers and smart contract safety risks. Both problems have greatly improved.<\/p>\n<p>For many people worldwide, defi today is in some cases already safer than tradfi. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZC9NKF2DbA\">pic.twitter.com\/ZC9NKF2DbA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VitalikButerin\/status\/1969569286550405302?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Buterin drew an analogy with the corporation&#8217;s business model, where search and advertising generate the main revenue, funding other company projects. He believes low-risk DeFi could similarly support Ethereum, providing income for the development of non-financial and experimental applications, such as social networks or identification systems.<\/p>\n<p>According to Buterin, he was initially skeptical of the decentralized segment due to high risks and a focus on speculation. However, over time, protocols have become safer, and their primary value has become providing global access to payments and savings in stable assets. The Ethereum co-founder believes that for many people worldwide, the risks of the traditional financial system now exceed the potential dangers of &#8220;mature DeFi.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized that low-risk DeFi aligns with the community&#8217;s goals. This sector generates income through fees and the use of Ethereum as collateral, while also performing an important social function\u2014granting people access to financial tools. Unlike Google&#8217;s advertising model, which encourages data collection, decentralized finance does not create &#8220;perverse incentives&#8221; for the layer-one network.<\/p>\n<p>In the future, this sector could become the foundation for more complex products. Among them, Buterin highlighted reputation-based lending and a shift from dollar-pegged stablecoins to other forms of stable assets like flatcoins.<\/p>\n<p>Back in August, the Ethereum co-founder <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/buterin-proposes-new-measures-to-safeguard-ethereums-decentralization\">proposed<\/a> a series of measures to protect the decentralization of the blockchain of the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buterin identified the low-risk DeFi sector as the primary economic driver of the ecosystem. In his view, it could play a role for the network similar to that of search for Google.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"Buterin sees low-risk DeFi as a key economic driver, akin to Google's search.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1093,46,738,200],"class_list":["post-89127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-defi","tag-ethereum","tag-google","tag-vitalik-buterin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"244","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"Buterin sees low-risk DeFi as a key economic driver, akin to Google's search.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89129,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89127\/revisions\/89129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}