Ethereum needs to look beyond the wild, speculative financial movement known as DeFi (decentralized finance), Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin said in a surprisingly uproarious keynote at Paris’s EthCC conference. His remarks touched on everything from complex blockchain-based login mechanisms to embarrassing social media token-shilling. “Being defined by DeFi is better than being defined by nothing,” he laid out in one slide. “But it needs to go further.” Buterin, 27, after a brief cross-legged meditation on stage before standing up to speak, said that Ethereum must be socially useful as well as financially ... (full story)