Buterin made this statement in response to a tweet from Celestia blockchain partner Nick White, who wrote on social media X that the main purpose of any blockchain is to be verifiable, regardless of the method.
He suggested that transactions be verified by decentralized committees.
However, Buterin disagreed with this idea, saying that even such committees could make Ethereum centralized and dependent on them.

Buterin added that blockchains should be open to anyone running nodes. This approach would ensure that governance remains distributed and not concentrated among a select few.

"If Ethereum abandons verifiability and then implements committees and centralized intermediaries, it will cease to be Ethereum to me . Decentralization is necessary for blockchain to thrive," Buterin wrote.

In August, the Ethereum co-founder said he prefers to use applications that do not sacrifice the principles of decentralization.
In particular, Buterin singled out the stablecoin RAI and the forecasting platform Polymarket. Buterin recently criticized OpenAI for moving to a closed-source model, accusing it of not prioritizing user safety.