Vitalik Buterin takes shot at Coinbases corporate control of Base which dominates 60% of layer 2 income

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has signaled a fundamental shift in the blockchain’s roadmap that declares the era of the “branded shard” effectively over.

On Feb. 3, Buterin argued that the industry’s previous “rollup-centric” vision no longer makes sense, citing faster scaling on the main Ethereum layer and the sluggish pace of decentralization among major rollups.

This philosophical correction lands squarely on the Coinbase-backed Base network.

Over the past years, the Ethereum layer-2…