Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, emphasizes the importance of good social philosophy in the app layer of Ethereum, rather than its infrastructure layer. In a recent post, he highlighted that developers' beliefs about what Ethereum applications should accomplish are crucial when building decentralized applications. Buterin used examples of apps like Railgun and Polymarket to illustrate good social philosophy, in contrast to bad examples like Pump.fun and FTX. He noted that while programming languages like C++ are less influenced by ideologies, Ethereum, being partly general-purpose, is still shaped by developers' social philosophies. He believes that apps should inherently do the right thing and critically reflects on both effective and ineffective applications in terms of their underlying principles. Ultimately, the nature of applications built on Ethereum reflects the philosophies held by their creators, indicating a direct link between social beliefs and application functions.

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