BlockBeats News, January 28 — Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin stated in an interview with ForesightNews that SocialFi is currently in a rather awkward stage. The biggest structural dilemma is that if social and financial aspects are tied too closely together, financial incentives often backfire and overwhelm social incentives. When users are no longer coming for quality content but for making money, they will start generating大量垃圾信息 to maximize收益. This is a dangerous signal — because financial attributes are destroying the essence of social interaction.
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