Vitalik: Low-Risk DeFi to Ethereum is Like Search to Google

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin stated in an article that the Ethereum community has long faced a balancing act between "economic sustainability" and "idealistic goals." Previously, high returns were mostly generated by NFTs, meme coins, or high-risk DeFi, while applications that truly aligned with Ethereum's vision lacked sufficient economic support. Now, as various protocols mature and security improves, low-risk DeFi is becoming a core growth driver for Ethereum. Focused on payments, savings, synthetic assets, and fully collateralized lending, it combines significant transaction fee contributions with inclusive value, offering transparent, stable, and permissionless financial services to users worldwide. This can be likened to "search to Google": search and advertising underpin Google's business model, while low-risk DeFi is poised to provide long-term, stable economic support for Ethereum. At the same time, it avoids issues of speculation and cultural misalignment, aligning closely with Ethereum's spirit of decentralization. In the future, low-risk DeFi could not only offer fairer savings and payment channels to more people but also evolve into more innovative applications such as reputation-based collateralized loans, prediction market hedging tools, CPI-pegged stablecoins, and new forms of value carriers. Its stability and scalability make it the most promising "pillar application" in the Ethereum ecosystem.