Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin Calls Out Flaws in Current Digital ID Frameworks

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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has raised fresh concerns over how identity is managed in the blockchain space, urging the crypto community to move away from singular digital ID solutions.

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Oluwapelumi Adejumo

Publish date

June 28, 2025

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BeInCrypto

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https://beincrypto.com/ethereum-vitalik-buterin-privacy-digital-id

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Vitalik backs pluralistic identity over single ID systems

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Rather than seeking a universal digital ID, the crypto community should foster systems that embrace complexity, redundancy, and user choice.

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Explicit pluralistic identity or ‘social-graph-based identity,’ a user has to prove a certain feature through attestations from others in the community Implicit pluralistic identity system, a user can provide any ID—government IDs or social media IDs—for verification.

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