### Vitalik on Funding Structures and Open Source Incentives#

In response to a community user's comment on the importance of "efficient capital formation for building the future," Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin emphasized the significance of creating funding structures that can incentivize open-source, open standards, and security in the long term. He believes that such structures can discourage walled gardens and exploitative behavior, while promoting positive-sum participation in a wider ecosystem. Vitalik believes that the tech world currently underestimates the importance of efficient capital formation for future development, and that creating funding structures that can sustainably incentivize open-source, open standards, and security is key to discouraging walled-garden mindsets and exploitative practices, while broadly fostering positive-sum participation in the wider ecosystem.