Vitalik's new article: "Making Ethereum's alignment visible"

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. The concept of "Ethereum alignment" was proposed. 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 browsers, 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, without centralizing them on a single “overseer,” the concept could be made more effective and better for the fairness and inclusivity that the Ethereum ecosystem strives for.