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PANews, February 20 – Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin posted on X, stating that extending the feedback distance between humans and artificial intelligence "is not a good thing." He noted that this trend often leads to AI generating low-quality content, rather than truly solving real human problems, and even fails to deliver well-optimized entertainment experiences. Vitalik further warned that once AI reaches a sufficiently powerful and potentially dangerous stage, such a development path could maximize the risk of "irreversible anti-human outcomes," possibly causing deep regret among its promoters. The goal of Ethereum is to "grant freedom to humanity," not to create a self-operating system that leaves human conditions unimproved or even worsened. Additionally, Vitalik Buterin pointed out that current mainstream models run on centralized institutional infrastructures such as OpenAI and Anthropic, which are not truly "self-sovereign." Ignoring this assumption of centralized trust runs counter to the principles that Ethereum opposes. The trend of exponential technological growth itself is hard to stop, so the core task of our era is not to further accelerate this exponential expansion, but to guide its direction and avoid the system sliding into uncontrollable or undesirable "attractor" states.

It is reported that OpenAI plans to cooperate with Applovin to achieve commercialization through advertising.

PANews reported on February 20 that, according to official disclosed data, the decentralized lending protocol Aave has become the first lending protocol with real-world asset (RWA) deposits surpassing $1 billion, marking a further acceleration in the integration of on-chain finance and traditional assets. The RWA sector has experienced rapid growth in recent years, with continuous inflows of institutional capital driving the expansion of on-chain treasury bonds, credit assets, and other products. This also reflects the market's ongoing demand for compliant on-chain assets and yield-generating products.