# Vitalik Buterin (@vitalik-buterin)

Vitalik Buterin is a programmer and writer who drafted the original proposal for Ethereum and became one of the project's co-founders. His work has focused on programmable blockchains, proof-of-stake consensus, scaling, privacy, and decentralized applications.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Vitalik Buterin's public record._

## Topics

- [A Broader Application Ecosystem](/@vitalik-buterin/decentralized-applications.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [The Ethereum Proposal](/@vitalik-buterin/ethereum-proposal.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [The Move to Proof of Stake](/@vitalik-buterin/proof-of-stake.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://ethereum.org/whitepaper/
- blog: https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/01/23/ethereum-now-going-public
- blog: https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-3675
- blog: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2022/12/30/institutions.html

## Ask this twin

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```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "vitalik-buterin", "question": "…"}`.