Celebrity Craze Guidebook Vitalik Unhappy with Meaningless Meme Coins

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin expressed, “I am very dissatisfied with the ‘celebrity cycle’ experiment so far. ‘Financialization is a means to an end’, if the end is worth it (healthcare, open-source software, art, etc.), I can respect it. Financialization (as the end product),


. Ashton and Mila’s Stoner Cats is much more honorable than anything we saw in the 2024 celebrity meme coin era, at least one actual show was funded. How do we push things in a better direction?”