Vitalik Buterin: Developers who don’t understand crypto can still receive funding from Ethereum On December 5, 2025, Ethereum founder Vitalik @VitalikButerin shared in a Green Pill interview that to prevent open-source projects from eventually being acquired by large corporations, the community needs to explore new crypto-economic mechanisms. He believes an effective solution is 'dependency funding,' which combines financial support with social outreach. He gave an example: if a developer who doesn’t understand cryptocurrency receives 1.5 ETH because their code is used in the Ethereum ecosystem, this kind of funding based on real dependencies feels more genuine than simply sending money without reason. As the crypto community deepens its intersection with non-crypto projects like Tor, Vitalik hopes to further expand this mechanism. Source: Green Pill