#Vitalik on Funding Structures#

In response to a community member's point about the importance of "efficient capital formation for building the future," Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stressed the importance of creating funding structures that can incentivize open-source, open standards, and security in the long term. He believes such structures can curb closed-minded and excessively predatory behavior, and promote becoming positive-sum participants in a broader ecosystem. Vitalik argues that the tech world generally underestimates the significance of efficient capital formation for building the future, and creating funding structures that can sustainably incentivize open-source, open standards, and security is key to curbing walled garden mentality and extractive behavior, and fostering a positive-sum participation across the board. He hopes such funding structures will better drive the ongoing development of blockchain technologies like Ethereum and bring more benefits to the entire ecosystem.