Ethereum’s (ETH) co-founder, Vitalik Buterin, has cautioned against the misuse of Ethereum’s consensus mechanism, arguing that extending its core functionalities could pose high systemic risks to the ecosystem. This warning came in a blog post published on May 21 titled “Don’t overload Ethereum’s consensus”. Buterin expressed concerns about certain techniques that could introduce high systemic risks to the ecosystem and stressed the need to discourage and resist such approaches.