## Vitalik Reveals Mini-Apps Crisis: How Open Standards Will Shape the Future of Web3
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin delivered sharp insights at Pragma Taipei 2025, highlighting that the current mini-apps wave conceals a threat to the core values of Web3. While these lightweight applications lower the barrier to entry for users, they are subtly rebuilding the "walled garden" that blockchain once promised to dismantle.
Buterin, in a fireside chat with investor Kartik Talwar hosted by ETHGlobal, stated that many mini-apps rely on proprietary infrastructure to bind users and developers to a
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