Buterin says Ethereum fits store of value better than fee-burning token

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin argued that Ethereum, as currently configured, makes more sense as a store of value than as a fee-burning token. He said sustaining the fee-burning thesis would require Ethereum to behave like a major corporation and move away from its decentralized principles. The comments are a framing debate rather than a protocol change, so traders are unlikely to reprice ETH on them alone, though they touch on the long-running valuation narrative around ether.