Vitalik Buterin Q&A Session | Web3Privacy Now - Tokyo Meetup 2025

Sun, Nov 2, 2025, 12:00 AM

Vitalik Buterin (founder of Ethereum) in a Q&A Session during our W3PN Tokyo Meetup. Useful links: Web3Privacy now collective: http://web3privacy.info Web3 privacy market dashboard: http://explorer.web3privacy.info Cypherpunk Congress: http://congress.web3privacy.info TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 00:00:42 - Privacy from business perspective vs civilian perspective, what are your thoughts on that? 00:07:23 - So you've worked on economic incentives for about 10 years now and very successfully. How do we economically incentivize people's participation in privacy? 00:12:19 - So, what do you think that privacy on Ethereum, will enable use cases that are typically relegated to more like darknet market ? 00:14:16 - What are your thoughts on the EIP 7503? 00:16:35 - If you're making the L1 with privacy proof for that matter, how would that affect current L2s focusing on privacy to resolve that issue as in projects like Aztec, like Coti? 00:18:47 - Has the Ethereum Foundation made investments into L2s? 00:28:07 - At Zuitzerland earlier this year, one of the researchers of EF proposed that EF would have about four years of runway left currently. Well, will Ethereum be finished in four years? 00:29:58 - What are your thoughts on Peter Thiel, a.k.a. the founder of Palantir? Can you tell us about the role of the Thiel Fellowship's founding in the theory? 00:33:11 - Cypherpunk as an ethos has been around for 30 years. What does the Ethereum ecosystem can add to that, given its current developments? 00:43:25 - What do you think about one-chain analysis tools and also trap-rule calls? 00:47:09 - Any insights on building asset treasuries on chain? 00:55:16 - Bringing more money on-chain is a problem? 00:57:36 - We've built economies around proof of work and proof of stake. But what about proof of feeling or proof of ache or proof of aliveness? 01:03:48 - Negative incentives, thoughts. 01:10:26 - I'm trying to establish a new health standard where patients control their own data, but governments can still use it for training AI models. How do you see Ethereum privacy technologies helping to achieve that balance? 01:14:30 - Cypherpunk, what do you think the cryptocurrency space or the web3 spaces is bringing to the table? 01:17:34 - What is your view about having a black logo, the black Ethereum logo, meaning privacy? 01:20:01 - Expectations of the Hackathon EthTokyo, as a final question.