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Vitalik Buterin’s Mother Is The Manager Of This Ethereum Scaling Solution

Vitalik Buterin’s Mother Natalia Ameline is quietly working on the team of Metis, a layer-2 scaling solution for Ethereum.

Covered:

  • What Is Metis?
  • Vitalik Buterin’s Mother Works There
  • What Does This Mean For Metis?

Mothers are usually always there to help support their children, but you don’t typically expect them to step in and solve your smart contract scalability issues, too. Vitalik Buterin’s Ethereum has grown too big for its own code to handle, and thus countless layer-2 (L2) scaling solutions have stepped in to alleviate the congestion. But none seem to carry the “Buterin clout” like METIS does.

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What Is METIS?

Metis (METIS) is an Ethereum L2 scaling solution aiming to fulfill the same role that the dominant scaling solution, Polygon (MATIC), is providing for Ethereum users. Based on the spirit of optimistic rollups, METIS implements the Decentralized Autonomous Company (DAC) framework for its L2 infrastructure. This framework allows developers and community leaders to easily build out their applications and communities. It also simplifies the facilitation of their development and collaboration management while enjoying the network effects of the Ethereum network.

In terms of Ethereum-native rollups, Metis is ranked 3rd in TVL, behind Arbitrum and Optimism, according to DeFiLlama, holding more than $375 million in TVL.

Vitalik Buterin’s Mother Works There

Now, it may sound like just another L2 scaling solution for Ethereum, so what’s the catch here? Well, as previously mentioned, the team behind Metis has some interesting characters working on the protocol, most notably, Vitalik Buterin’s mother, Natalia Ameline.

She is the General DAC Manager and the Head of Investor Relations for Metis.

Interestingly enough, Vitalik Buterin’s mother is also reportedly long-time family friends with the Co-Founder & CEO of Metis, Elena Sinelnikova. Here’s an image of all three of the crypto natives together when young Vitalik was just starting to get his hands dirty with computers.

This was taken from a YouTube video covering the history of Natalie Ameline’e initial crypto endeavor, CryptoChicks. You can watch that video by clicking here.

With such strong tech influences coming from Vitalik Buterin’s mother and her long-time friend Elena, it should come as no surprise that Vitalik was destined to build out the world’s largest and most successful smart contract protocol.

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What Does This Mean For Metis?

So what does this have to do with Metis and why is it bullish for its long-term future?

Well, having that tight connection to the Buterin family certainly means that Vitalik would be more willing to help out his mother build her protocol rather than focusing on other scaling competitors — call it a motherly bias if you will but that’s the reality of it.

Now, it’s very probable that we won’t see 80% of all transactions in the world taking place on Metis, but the fact remains that Metis has some strong backing behind it to ensure its long-term success.

Metis has been implementing Ethereum’s proposals dating all the way back to 2013, such as DACs, into its infrastructure.

Vitalik has even been known to be in tight talks with METIS devs online, quickly responding to scaling concerns being raised by Metis programmers.

It’s clear that the connection between Vitalik Buterin, his mother, Metis, and Ethereum is all tightly wound together. While Metis may not have the network effects on Polygon, it has the Ethereum family’s blood flowing through its veins, which may just be enough for it to land as a smash hit in the Ethereum scaling world.

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