In a conversation with Xiao Feng, founder of Wanxiang Blockchain, at today's EAG Ethereum Applications Conference in Hong Kong, Vitalik Buterin stated that Ethereum's core value must extend beyond the protocol layer, application layer, and ecosystem to many other layers.

He discovered that what people in the open-source hardware field are doing is highly consistent with the Ethereum concept: creating a fully local computing box that can run AI and do whatever you want, regardless of whether there is an internet connection.

In the process of evolution and optimization, there are some things we cannot afford to lose. Once decentralization is lost, Ethereum is nothing more than a less efficient centralized service, and will be meaningless.

Decentralization is not a feature of Ethereum, but rather the reason for its existence.