EXCLUSIVE : On being asked by @audreyt on how Vitalik’s experience has been so far in India. 🇮🇳 VITALIK BULLISH ON INDIA’S DEVELOPMENT @VitalikButerin #Devcon8# @EFDevcon

📽️FULL VIDEO: Vitalik Buterin Live at Devcon 8, Mumbai 🇮🇳 Key Highlights: • How AI is transforming technology and society. • Why decentralization matters in an AI-driven world. • Understanding d/acc (Decentralized Acceleration). • Why open-source technology and verifiable security are essential. • Zero-knowledge proofs and cryptographic privacy. • GrapheneOS and Qubes OS for secure operating systems. • Decentralized social media and user sovereignty. • Privacy-preserving AI and local AI models. • Secure communication and metadata privacy. • Why data should be treated as toxic waste by default. Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 00:17 The Open, Secure and Verifiable Future 00:42 How AI Is Changing Our Assumptions 01:05 AI, Software Vulnerabilities and Surveillance 01:42 AI's Positive Potential 01:59 AI and Scientific Breakthroughs 02:18 How AI Changes the Rules of the Game 02:57 Three Possible Paths: Deceleration, Domination and Doom 03:37 Defensive Technology as an Alternative 03:59 Why Technological Domination Is Becoming the Default 04:25 The Problem With Centralized Security 05:17 Defensive Decentralized Acceleration 05:38 Why Openness and Verifiability Matter 05:55 Open Source and Digital Self-Sovereignty 06:19 Verifiable Technology and Cryptographic Proofs 06:52 Zero-Knowledge Proofs and Privacy 07:33 Building More Secure Operating Systems 08:01 Hardware Security: Not Your Silicon, Not Your Life 08:25 Open-Source Hardware and Air Quality Monitoring 09:13 Privacy, Health Data and Decentralized Science 09:31 Protecting Personal Data 09:50 Why Social Media Is Becoming Unreliable 10:06 Don't Buy Crypto Based on Twitter 10:29 Decentralized Social Media 11:06 User Control Over Online Communities 11:29 Interoperability and Decentralized Platforms 11:45 User Agency and Community Ownership 12:11 Verifying Information: Truth and Misinformation 12:37 The Need for Secure Communication Tools 12:55 Hidden Backdoors and Disappearing Messages 13:12 End-to-End Encryption and Metadata Privacy 13:32 AI Is Becoming Your Second Brain 13:50 Local AI vs Remote AI 14:17 AI, Privacy and Security 14:33 Treat Personal Data as Toxic Waste 14:56 Vitalik's Closing Message 15:07 Beginning of Next Discussion (Transcript Cutoff) @VitalikButerin @ethereum #Devcon8# #Ethereum#

LATEST: Ethereum co-founder @VitalikButerin praised @theInterfold, a new privacy-focused voting protocol using ZK proofs, FHE, and Ethereum, calling it the realization of ideas he has pushed for nearly a decade around censorship-resistant and anonymous onchain voting systems.

NEW: Polygon CDK has introduced a new privacy upgrade that lets institutions launch private chains while staying connected to global liquidity. The new validium setup, powered by Succinct, keeps raw transaction data inside institution-operated infrastructure. while Ethereum only verifies cryptographic commitments and ZK proofs. Private data. Public verification. @0xPolygon @sandeepnailwal