### Vitalik on Open Source Incentives#

In response to a community member's view that "the tech world undervalues the importance of efficient capital formation for building the future," Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin highlighted the importance of creating funding structures that can sustainably incentivize open source, open standards, and security. He argued that such structures can suppress walled-garden mentalities and extractive practices, and generally promote becoming positive-sum participants in a wider ecosystem. He emphasized that what truly matters is creating funding structures that continuously incentivize open source, open standards, and security, suppress walled-garden mentalities and extractive practices, and broadly promote becoming positive-sum participants in a wider ecosystem.