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Key Highlights In the latest post, Vitalik Buterin stated that Ethereum’s top role is a “public bulletin board.” He highlighted the blockchain’s usefulness for things like secure voting, certificate revocation, or tamper-proof software updates, instead of only focusing on smart contracts or payments The PeerDAS upgrade has increased Ethereum’s data availability by 2.3 times On March 12, Ethereum’s co-founder, Vitalik Buterin, shared a post on X (formerly Twitter), where he once again shared his views on developers’ focus on identifying Ethereum’s true potential for cryptography infrastructure.  I was recently at Real World Crypto (that’s crypto as in cryptography) and the associated side events, and one thing that struck me was that it was a clarifying experience in terms of understanding *what blockchains are for*. We blockchain people (myself included) often have a… — vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) March 12, 2026 He shared this post after returning from the Real World Crypto summit in Taipei, Taiwan, which was held between March 9 and March 11. This event was mainly attended by cryptography experts who are working on real-world tools instead of only focusing on the cryptocurrency hype.  Vitalik Asks Community to Choose Data Availability Over Smart Contracts on Ethereum In the post, Buterin stated that blockchain communities are mostly focusing on how they make use of everything on Ethereum. Instead, he urged the community to step back and treat Ethereum as one tool among “sanctuary tech” and “CROP tech.” This would make it a censorship-resistant, open-source, private, and secure system that protects users from corporate or government controls.  Vitalik Buterin stated in the tweet, “For a moment, let us forget that we are ‘the Ethereum community’. Rather, we are maintainers of the Ethereum tool, and members of the {CROPS (censorship-resistant, open-source, private, secure) tech | sanctuary tech | non-corposlop tech | d/acc |…

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