On January 6th, Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum, replied to Ethereum Foundation researcher Devansh Mehta on the X platform that "the Ethereum Foundation should start supporting non-cryptocurrencies, not just activities that people in the circle promote each other": "In my opinion, mainstream cryptography, cyber security and non-blockchain decentralization are regarded as" non-cryptocurrency related "is a failure in itself (I think this concept mainly comes from the cryptocurrency side), and it is worth taking measures to solve this problem."