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Vitalik Buterin embraces ‘low-risk DeFi’ as key Ethereum revenue driver
Yahoo Finance·2025-09-22 01:34

Ethereum has long wrestled with the “non-ouroboros” problem: how to generate real revenue beyond speculative loops of buying, selling, and leveraging tokens on its chain. For years, memecoins, non-fungible tokens, and incentive-driven decentralised finance apps have propped up activity but failed to provide a sustainable foundation for Ethereum’s nearly $100 billion DeFi economy according to DefiLlama data. Now, as Wall Street is increasingly betting on Ethereum as the backbone of the stablecoin boom, co ...