Ethereum Hits 10 Years: Vitalik Buterin Declares ’The Network Must Never Fail’

Ethereum's decade-long reign faces its ultimate stress test—Vitalik Buterin just dropped the gauntlet: '100% uptime isn’t aspirational. It’s mandatory.'

Survival at scale

The blockchain that birthed DeFi and NFTs now shoulders $500B+ in value. One outage could trigger a cascade worse than a Mt. Gox replay—except this time, Wall Street's algorithmic vultures are circling.

Legacy shudders, crypto adapts

While TradFi still reboots its mainframes every Patch Tuesday, Ethereum validators process transactions without skipping a beat. The irony? Banks now pay $10M+ in gas fees monthly to settle on-chain—after spending years calling it 'play money.'

The final provocation

Buterin’s ultimatum lands as ETF issuers scramble to stake their ETH. Will institutional custody solutions become the network’s single point of failure? Only time—and the next 10 years—will tell.