Vitalik: Ethereum must pass the "able to walk away at any time" test to achieve long-term stability
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Jan 12, 2026
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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin posted on X, stating that Ethereum itself must pass the "always be able to walk away" test. Ethereum's positioning is to become an ideal habitat for various trustless and minimized-trust applications, whether in the financial, governance, or other fields.
It must support applications that are more like "tools" rather than "services" that completely fail once the vendor stops maintaining them. Even if