Vitalik: Low-risk DeFi is to Ethereum what search is to Google

According to Odaily Planet Daily, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin has stated in a post that the Ethereum community has long struggled to balance economic sustainability with idealistic goals. Previously, high returns were primarily generated by NFTs, meme tokens, or high-risk DeFi, while applications that truly aligned with Ethereum's vision lacked sufficient economic support.

Today, as various protocols gradually mature and their security improves, low-risk DeFi is becoming a core growth point for Ethereum, focusing on payments, savings, synthetic assets, and fully collateralized lending. It has both considerable transaction fee contributions and inclusive value, and can provide transparent, stable, and permissionless financial services to global users.

This can be compared to the relationship between search and Google: search and advertising underpin Google's business model, while low-risk DeFi is expected to provide long-term, robust economic support for Ethereum. At the same time, it avoids speculation and cultural misalignment, aligning closely with Ethereum's decentralized ethos.

In the future, low-risk DeFi will not only provide more people with fair savings and payment channels, but may also evolve into more innovative applications such as reputation-based mortgages, prediction market hedging tools, CPI-linked stablecoins, and new value carriers. Its stability and scalability make it the most promising "pillar application" in the Ethereum ecosystem.