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Vitalik Buterin: Closed-Source Compromise Leads to Projects Being Hijacked by Interest Groups In December 23 at Convergence 2025, Vitalik Buterin stated that the dilution of crypto principles is often a slow process. He outlined a path where projects add centralized servers or multisigs for convenience, eventually switching to proprietary...

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