I’m finding the Ethereum drama on X to really be missing the point.

There’s a strange false dichotomy being presented between App layer and Infra layer which, quite frankly, Base and Farcaster are bridging / have already bridged. 

Specifically, it seems there’s this question of whether the Infra layer should be less cypherpunk; or else the App Layer more cypherpunk. 

I think this is really the wrong framing — this idea that the two layers need to be philosophically aligned. 

Vitalik’s sincerity about building *genuinely* differentiated Infra (eg, credibly neutral, permissionless, censorship resistant) is precisely what makes crypto interesting and valuable. 

At the same time, I am quite sure that the thing I am using that for (a wildly different experience of sports betting) is like… the very last thing Vitalik would be interested in. And not cypherpunk at all. 

And this is good! Right?!

Infra needs to resist human impulses.
Apps need to embrace them.

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