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Vitalik Buterin Delays Essay to Write a Science Fiction Novel About Governance

Vitalik Buterin will temporarily pause his habit of writing long blog posts to write a science fiction novel about decentralized governance, announced by the Ethereum co-founder on Wednesday via his Farcaster account.

He has completed chapters one and two and uploaded them to his personal website, signaling a shift from technical essays to fiction work with a storyline focused on governance experiments in the native crypto asset system.

Buterin’s Sci-Fi Novel Brings Governance into the Fictional World

Buterin shared his experiment on Farcaster, where his account vitalik.eth posted a brief note directing followers to the draft he is working on.

“Instead of my usual blog, I decided to try writing science fiction about decentralized governance,” Buterin explained.

For years, his essays have explored various coordination issues within decentralized autonomous organizations, voting mechanisms, and public funding.

By bringing these questions into the fictional world, he can test his ideas in a hypothetical society, rather than directly on the Ethereum mainnet, where mistakes could cause real losses.

Why Choose the Sci-Fi Format, and Why Now

This shift occurs as many DAOs face long-term governance challenges that are well known, such as low voter turnout, treasury exposure, and power concentration among large token holders.

Previously, Buterin argued that quadratic voting and pluralistic mechanisms could reduce these excessive influences. Through narrative work, he has space to depict these mechanisms within an imagined cityscape and crisis scenarios.

Recently, the Ethereum co-founder hinted at a greater distance from the influence of the Ethereum Foundation, describing the organization as just one node among a broader ecosystem.

Buterin’s praise for Farcaster as an easy-to-use platform also explains why this announcement appears there, rather than on a centralized network.

Whether this draft will become a full novel or remain an open experiment, the project offers a new space for Ethereum’s key thinkers to explore governance questions.

The coming weeks will show whether crypto readers treat each chapter like an Ethereum Improvement Proposal.