Ethereum needs to look beyond the wild, speculative financial movement known as DeFi (decentralized finance), Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin said in a surprisingly uproarious keynote at Paris’s EthCC conference. His remarks touched on everything from complex blockchain-based login mechanisms to embarrassing social media token-shilling. 
“Being defined by DeFi is better than being defined by nothing,” he laid out in one slide. “But it needs to go further.”
Buterin, 27, after a brief cross-legged meditation on stage before standing up to speak, said that Ethereum must be socially useful as well as financially beneficial, drawing a cheery response from an audience thrumming with DeFi entrepreneurs, investors and developers. 

He complained, for instance, that much of Ethereum’s functionality is presently limited to a select few, singling out expensive gas fees as one particularly egregious example. “The degens can pay for it, the apes can pay for it, the orangutans can p

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