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According to a series of tweets posted by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin on X on July 20, he engaged in deep reflection on AI capability growth and the future of humanity. Vitalik divides the evolution of machine capabilities into three stages: the Industrial Revolution (physical repetitive labor), the Computer Age (mental tasks definable by logic), and the LLM Era (mental and partial physical tasks defined based on massive samples). He points out that the current core question lies in: whether LLMs plus subsequent improvements can ultimately cover all unique human capabilities, or if a fourth or fifth technological wave is still needed. Regarding the definition of AGI, Vitalik proposes: AGI refers to AI that, if uploaded into a robotic body and humans suddenly disappear, can still independently continue civilization. He emphasizes that once AGI is realized, it will be an "irreversible turning point," and humanity's dominance over Earth will remain only due to historical inertia rather than capability advantage. Regarding the future path, Vitalik hopes for deep human-machine integration—erasing the human-machine binary boundary through technologies such as brain-computer interfaces and consciousness uploading, enabling humans to remain competitive before the technology ceiling arrives. He also calls for maintaining global political and economic diversification, avoiding monopolization of AI advantages by a single nation or corporation, and expresses support for AI development "slowdown" and "pause" proposals, leaning towards achieving decentralized slowdown via an open-source weights model rather than relying on coercive political means.
Vitalik stated on platform X that one direction for future AI development is a deeper integration of humans and machines, including computers working more collaboratively with humans, identifying conscious and subconscious signals emitted by humans, brain-computer interfaces, and computer-assisted telepathy that helps multiple people better understand each other and cooperate. Its ultimate form is to eliminate the binary division between humans and machines and open up various positions on this spectrum.Vitalik hopes that deeply integrated humans and machines can outperform separate humans and machines, and this should continue until the technological ceiling is reached. The far-future AI outcomes he envisions include: global political and economic pluralism is preserved, with no single company or government dominating; humans can choose to accept technological upgrades to explore the universe at a level competitive with pure machines, or maintain the status quo and act in the world through robots that take orders; most of the Earth could become highly regulated nature reserves, where people can continue their current lifestyle, and those who wish to do more radical things would go to space.AI itself may become too powerful compared to other alternatives, a certain country or company may gain a decisive advantage and lock it in permanently, powerful technological means could cause incalculable harm, and the path of human-machine integration itself may not retain enough humanity, ultimately becoming just another way to create powerful robots. Therefore, he hopes to pass through this narrow passage at a slower pace and is supportive of proposals for deceleration or moratorium, including ideas like Mutual Assured Compute Destruction that can provide braking opportunities.Vitalik stated that his ideal world is one where open-weight models prevail, and Dean Ball's judgment that open-weight models have a decelerationist effect by curbing capital expenditure on frontier models is completely correct, even though it will drive more capital expenditure on peripheral devices and applications. This can achieve deceleration without resorting to harsher political means. However, he believes one should not expect the world to naturally provide convenient economic and physical laws. Humanity still has a certain degree of agency over political laws, and there are many ways to change incentives without letting a single authority take control, and these should be utilized.
Bybit today launched three new perpetual contracts: U.S. Rare Earth (USARUSDT), BlackBerry (BBXUSDT), and Credo Technology (CRDOUSDT), covering the rare-earth resources, enterprise security software, and high-end chips sectors.
according to an official announcement, Bitget's stock contracts have now listed six underlying assets: DRAM (Roundhill Memory ETF), AXTI (AXT Inc), LWLG (Lightwave Logic), KOPN (Kopin Corporation), NIO (NIO Inc.), and USAR (USA Rare Earth), covering popular sectors such as memory, optical communications, and rare earth resources. The aforementioned contracts support up to 20x leverage. For more details, please refer to the Bitget official platform.
According to the official announcement, Binance Futures will launch AMDUSDT, QCOMUSDT, and USARUSDT—three USD-quoted perpetual contracts—in phases on May 6, 2026. These contracts track the stock prices of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Qualcomm (QCOM), and USA Rare Earth (USAR), respectively. Each contract offers up to 10x leverage, a funding rate cap of ±2%, and funding settlements every eight hours. The contracts support multi-asset margin mode, enabling users to use non-USDT assets such as BTC as margin.