The co-founder of Ethereum (ETH) Vitaly Buterin said that his crypto investments are almost exclusively devoted to the Ethereum network, in a publication published in the Reddit "Ask me something" (AMA) 18 February.
The AMA post is dedicated to Ethereum leadership and accountability, and it asks those who occupy leadership positions in the ETH community to share their potential conflicts of interest.
In Buterin’s brief, his total holdings of non-Ethereum ecosystem tokens — including Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Bitcoin (BTC), Dogecoin (DOGE), and Zcash (ZEC) — are less than 10 percent of the value of his Ethereum wealth.
Similarly, it is reported that an additional set of ETH Ethereum ecosystem tokens, consisting of Kyber (KNC), OmiseGo (OMG), Maker (MKR), (OMG) and Augur (REP), in total costs less than 10 percent of Butherin Ethereum.
Buterin also told AMA that he has “significant corporate equity stakes” at Clearmatics, a blokchain research and development company, as well as in a scalable and confidential startup company Starkware. The latter, in particular, is developing a cryptographic technology, such as evidence with zero disclosure, of which Buterin is a supporter.
In addition, Buterin has disclosed his external income over the past 12 months – in addition to the Ethereum Foundation – for his role as an advisor on the tokens disclosed in his holdings.
Vitalik also discussed his non-financial involvement in other blockchain projects, including ecosystems for the above-mentioned tokens, as well as to several organizations that are not related to tokens; such as L4, Plasma Group, EthGlobal and EDCON.
He is also reportedly involved in several non-token and non-Ethereum organizations – “mainly in crypto and economic circles” – which he did not specify.
As reported, Vitalik recently participated in the discussion of Ethereum developers regarding a new set of functions for creating smart contracts, which will be released on the upcoming hard fork in Constantinople.
Some community members expressed their concern that these functions may have negative security implications, which Buterin denied, while stressing the need to develop functions with a longer roadmap.