Over 1 million ETH staked as Vitalik Buterin condemns "corposlop" and calls for a sovereign web

Ethereum is facing an identity debate as institutional investors commit over 1 million ETH to staking while yields sit near multi-year lows. At the same time, co-founder Vitalik Buterin is urging a shift toward a privacy-focused, sovereign web that counters corporate data extraction and algorithm-driven platforms. A recent 330 ETH transfer from a wallet linked to Buterin into Paxos underscores his ongoing operational and ecosystem-related activity on-chain.