💰Vitalik just posted what he calls the "walkaway test" for Ethereum: if he and the entire core dev team disappeared tomorrow, would ETH keep running and improving? His answer: not yet, but getting closer. Too many critical decisions still route through him and a handful of people.
He's right to worry. $ETH is supposed to be decentralized infrastructure, but it still has founder dependency. The merge worked, but every major upgrade debate still waits for Vitalik's opinion. Good that he's saying it out loud - means they're actually working on it, not pretending the problem doesn't exist.
