Solana, others caught in SEC crackdown ‘don’t deserve it,’ Buterin says
Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin has finally weighed in on the US approach to crypto regulation. Buterin shared his thoughts on the matter early Friday morning through a Twitter ask me anything (AMA). Paradigm co-founder Matt Huang asked him, “How are you feeling about the US policy approach to crypto?” Buterin responded with sympathy for his blockchain counterparts that are in US regulators’ crosshairs, naming Solana in particular. He seemingly also acknowledged Ethereum’s somewhat privileged position. “The one comment I’ll make is that I feel bad that @solana and other projects are getting hit in this way. They don’ t deserve it, and if ethereum ends up ‘winning’ through all other blockchains getting kicked off exchanges, that’s not an honorable way to win, and in the long term probably isn’t even a victory,” Buterin tweeted. He said he doesn’t consider other chains, such as Solana, to be the real competition. The true threat, he said, is “the rapidly expanding centralized worl...