{"id":695852,"date":"2025-10-21T01:10:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T22:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ethereum-needs-paradigm-vcs-despite-value-extraction-concerns-joseph-lubin\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T01:10:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T22:10:19","slug":"ethereum-needs-paradigm-vcs-despite-value-extraction-concerns-joseph-lubin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ethereum-needs-paradigm-vcs-despite-value-extraction-concerns-joseph-lubin\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum needs Paradigm, VCs, despite value extraction concerns: Joseph Lubin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 15px;width:240px\">\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjUtMDcvMDE5N2VlYTAtOTc4NS03NDI4LTlmMDYtNWJhYjE4NzdiYTg2.jpg\" class=\"type:primaryImage\">\n                    <\/p>\n<p>The main goal of VCs is to &#8220;suck as much value as possible\u201d from Ethereum, but they remain necessary bridges for global capital entering the crypto industry, according to Lubin.<\/p>\n<p><p>Ethereum co-founder and Consensys founder Joseph Lubin highlighted the importance of venture capital (VC) funding for the development of the world&#8217;s largest smart contract network, despite growing industry concerns over the influence of investment funds on Ethereum.<\/p>\n<p>The main goal of VCs like Paradigm is to &#8220;suck as much value as possible from the Ethereum and broader ecosystem,&#8221; while their secondary goals include &#8220;progressing the systems towards rigorous decentralization,&#8221; wrote Lubin in a Monday X <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ct-non-breakable=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ethereumJoseph\/status\/1980279130638672175\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a>, adding that there is \u201cno reason for concern.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lubin&#8217;s comments come shortly after the departure of two key Ethereum researchers, which caused renewed concerns over the potential influence of centralized funds over Ethereum\u2019s development.<\/p>\n<p>Read more<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Ethereum co-founder and Consensys founder Joseph Lubin highlighted the importance of venture capital (VC) funding for the development of the world&#8217;s largest smart contract network,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":695853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=90,width=1200\/https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2025-07\/0197eea0-9785-7428-9f06-5bab1877ba86","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74894,110072,75972,74863,107431,74891,75326,159285,80823,117,73711,71745],"class_list":["post-695852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-blockchain","tag-blockchain-capital","tag-crypto-capital","tag-cryptocurrencies","tag-cryptocurrency-investment","tag-ethereum","tag-ethereum-2-0","tag-global-capital","tag-pantera-capital","tag-business","tag-investments","tag-venture-capital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}