[Vitalik Reflects on the 2014 Blockchain Vision, Says the Decentralization Renaissance is Coming] Foresight News reports that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin reflected on the 2014 blockchain vision on social media: The vision at the time was to have permissionless decentralized applications that could support functions such as finance, social media, ride-sharing, organizational governance, crowdfunding, and more, potentially creating a completely different alternative network, all built on a single set of technologies. Over the past five years, this core vision has sometimes become blurred, with various 'meta-narratives' and 'themes' dominating at times. But the core vision has never disappeared. In fact, the core technologies supporting this vision are becoming increasingly powerful. Vitalik stated that in 2014, decentralized applications were still just toys and were a hundred times harder to use in the Web 2.0 era than they are now. By 2026, Fileverse has become user-friendly enough that I can frequently use it to write documents and send them to others for collaboration. The decentralization renaissance is coming, and you can be a part of it.