Wu Shuo learned that Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin published a lengthy article discussing the boundaries of reasonable crypto incentive mechanisms, pointing out that ideal incentives should only be used to compensate for unavoidable temporary costs before protocol maturity, rather than attracting low-quality users who would never use the protocol after it matures. Vitalik emphasized that liquidity rewards in the DeFi space are reasonable because they compensate for early risks, but simply paying tokens in exchange for social attention (such as tweet subsidies) often damages community quality and leads to user loss after incentives dry up. He called for the industry to return to its core purpose, focusing on developing truly useful applications rather than maintaining false prosperity through indiscriminate payments.