Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, published a blog post titled "Making Ethereum Alignment Clearly Identifiable". Vitalik believes that one of the most important social challenges in the Ethereum ecosystem is balance - or more precisely, integration, decentralization, and cooperation. The advantage of this ecosystem is that there are a variety of people and organizations - client teams, researchers, second-layer teams, application developers, local community groups - working hard for their own visions of Ethereum. The main challenge is to ensure that all these projects work together to build something like the Ethereum ecosystem, rather than 138 incompatible areas.
Vitalik analyzes from the perspectives of open source, open standards, decentralization and security, and positive-sum. His ideal goal is to see more entities like L2beat emerge to track the performance of various projects in meeting the above standards and other standards proposed by the community. Instead of competing for connections, projects should compete on alignment based on easy-to-understand standards.
