BlockBeats News, April 13th, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin responded to the "community's need for self-renewal of Ethereum and generational turnover, with the next generation needing to be rooted in Ethereum's values (such as cypherpunk)," stating, "I actually think that the growth of the application layer requires good philosophical support. For example: suppose C++ was developed by an authoritarian racist fascist. Would it be a worse language? Probably not. C++ is generic, with not much room for bad social philosophy to ruin it (or for good social philosophy to improve it). Ethereum Layer-1 is not entirely like this: those who don't believe in decentralization won't add light clients, FOCIL, or (well-formulated) account abstraction; those who don't mind wasting energy won't spend five years transitioning to PoS. However, the EVM's opcodes might remain roughly the same. Therefore, Ethereum may be about 50% generic. Applications are about 80% specific. What kind of application you build depends largely on your idea of what Ethereum DApp (and the whole Ethereum) will do for the world. Therefore, having good ideas on this topic becomes crucial."

Vitalik listed some examples of applications, considering good applications such as Railgun, Farcaster, Polymarket, Signal, and bad applications such as Pump.fun, Terra/Luna, FTX, with the difference stemming from developers' different beliefs in their goals.