BlockBeats news, on September 28, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik published an article titled "Making Ethereum's Alignment Visible", which talks about how to balance the Ethereum client team, researchers, Layer 2 teams, application developers, and local community groups to ensure that all these projects collectively build a unified Ethereum ecosystem, and proposed the concept of "Ethereum alignment".
This can include value alignment (e.g., open source, minimal centralization, support for public products), technical alignment (e.g., adopting ecosystem-wide standards), and economic alignment (e.g., using ETH as a token whenever possible).
Vitalik analyzed from the perspectives of open source, open standards, decentralization and security, and positive sum. His ideal goal is to see more entities like L2beat emerge to track the performance of various projects in meeting the above standards and other standards proposed by the community. Instead of competing for connections, projects should compete on alignment based on easy-to-understand standards.
“Dashboard organizations” like L2beat, block explorers, and other ecosystem monitoring tools are an excellent example of this principle working successfully in the Ethereum ecosystem. If the different aspects of alignment can be made clearer while not centralized in a single “overseer,” this concept can be made more effective and do a better job of fairness and inclusion in the Ethereum ecosystem’s pursuit.
