### Vitalik on Open Source Incentives#

In response to a community user's point about the importance of efficient capital formation for building the future, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin emphasized the importance of creating funding structures that can incentivize open source, open standards, and security in the long term. He believes that such structures can discourage closed-minded approaches and exploitative practices, and generally foster becoming positive-sum participants in a broader ecosystem. Vitalik believes that the current tech world vastly undervalues the importance of efficient capital formation for building the future, and that creating funding structures that can sustainably incentivize open source, open standards, and security is key to curbing walled-garden mentalities and extractive practices, and promoting becoming positive-sum participants in a wider ecosystem. He hopes that such structures can effectively drive the continued development of open-source projects, ultimately leading to a more open, secure, and prosperous tech ecosystem.