Odaily News Well-known trader Ansem said on the X platform that Vitalik created the second most important project in the history of encryption and had reason to take his own profits. In response, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin replied that he had never sold and retained the proceeds since 2018. All sales were used to support various projects that he believed were valuable, whether in the Ethereum ecosystem or in other more charitable areas (such as biomedical research and development).