The mainstream human worldview—our shared ideology—has evolved through a clear sequence of paradigm shifts: from the religious era, to the scientific era, and now toward the algorithmic era. I've held this conviction about its trajectory for many years. From this vantage point, I see Vitalik Buterin's historical role as the modern counterpart to Confucius in ancient China more than 2,000 years ago. Blockchain and cryptographic technology serve as the foundational ideological infrastructure for the emerging algorithmic paradigm. Even if Ethereum's token value eventually plateaus, these ideas and primitives will become the default coordination and governance layer for the AI age—encompassing both human individuals and AI agent entities. They will forge a new algorithmic-era ontology, fundamentally distinct from today's scientific paradigm. In this future worldview, "existence" itself won't need to conform to what we currently define as "real" in the scientific sense.

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