【Vitalik: The realization of the concepts of "popup city" and "network states" still needs to solve two major problems: governance and membership】 According to Golden Finance, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin revealed that he still needs to solve at least two major problems - governance and membership - to make his concept of "popup city" or "network states" feasible. On September 22, Vitalik spoke at the Network State 2024 conference in Singapore, explaining the theory behind the "network state" - a movement in which online communities come together to form physical communities and seek political autonomy. Vitalik reviewed his experiment called Zuzalu, which involved bringing 200 people including the Ethereum community, crypto executives, biotech entrepreneurs and scientific researchers to Montenegro from March to May 2023, with the goal of working together to solve collective problems such as human lifespan. "Bring these people together for 60 days, try to become a city, and then see what happens," Vitalik said. He said people loved the experience, which included healthy eating, cold diving and lots of yoga, and that the human element was crucial. However, he added that it was “not clear what the next steps Zuzalu hinted at would be” and that governance issues had not been addressed. Buterin explained that the countries could have their own regulations to serve their citizens and could reject over-regulation that stifles progress (as seen in the West), but it was not clear from the experiment how to proceed with enforcing those regulations. He said popup cities are a new medium where you can think ahead “like science fiction.” However, he said that productive relationships need to be established between cyber nations because the tribalism that can be seen on social media today is “zero-sum and ineffective.” (Cointelegraph)