### Vitalik on Funding Structure#

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 sustainably incentivize open-source, open standards, and security. He believes these structures should discourage closed-minded and overly extractive behavior, and instead foster participation as positive-sum contributors to a broader ecosystem. Vitalik argues that the tech world generally undervalues the importance of efficient capital formation for building the future, and that creating funding structures that sustainably incentivize open-source, open standards, and security is what matters. These structures can avoid isolated monopolies and excessive extractive behaviors, and push for broader ecosystem development.