Make Ethereum cypherpunk again

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/12/28/cypherpunk.html

Everything built should be built to not depend on the social layer. No matter how strong and effective the social layer is the probability of it degrading is non 0 and only increases with time.

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The problem is that building things to rely solely on incentives is in many cases impractical. A purely in-protocol automated system has no way to "pay people to be decentralized".

can’t proof of humanity tools like worldcoin enable protocols to pay people to be decentralized?

researching evolution & collective intelligence

https://joao-abrantes.com

You’d still probably end up being centralised in the middle layer, via staking services for instance. I’d think of it as saying “can we disincentivise power laws from arising in any given system”?

Potentially something like iris scans could work if you ban middleware and enforce only iris to iris consensus