According to Odaily Planet Daily, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin recently spoke up on the X platform, this time specifically mentioning the long-standing privacy coin project Zcash.
He spoke quite frankly:
Zcash must resist the influence of the 'dark forces' of token voting.
Vitalik's attitude is very clear:
Token voting is terrible in every aspect, even worse than the current problems of Zcash.
Let ordinary token holders directly control governance, which seems decentralized but will actually lead to the gradual erosion of key values.
Especially core concepts like 'privacy' that can easily be sacrificed in the games of the majority, the longer it goes on, the more dangerous it becomes.
In simple terms, what he is worried about is:
When voting rights are entirely determined by the scale of tokens, the long-term privacy value may be completely overshadowed by short-term motives, interest groups, and capital whales.
This statement also reflects Vitalik's consistent views on governance models:
——Decentralization is not about distributing power to tokens, but to the right mechanisms.
——Privacy protection is not maintained through voting, but through technology and value consensus.
For Zcash, this is not just a reminder but more like a preventive measure:
Do not swing to the other extreme in the name of 'governance modernization' and hand the soul of the project over to speculators.
In summary:
Vitalik's meaning is very clear:
If Zcash wants to remain pure, it shouldn't hand its fate over to token voting.
