Vitalik Buterin warned about the central dilemma facing the industry: as crypto projects grow, many seek solutions that make them dependent on centralized components, such as servers and closed-control platforms. At the Convergence 2025 event, Ethereum co-founder explained that this trend toward centralization not only betrays the fundamental principles of open source code but also erodes the transparency that characterizes blockchains.

The risk, according to Buterin, is progressive. Projects that compromise decentralization by introducing centralized intermediaries become vulnerable to eventually being dominated by interest groups with sufficient resources to control these failure points. What seems like an operational improvement in the short term can become the ecosystem's structural weakness. This warning reflects an increasingly relevant debate in crypto: how much centralization is acceptable without losing the decentralized essence?