Dogecoin co-creator Billy Markus pushed back on Vitalik Buterin’s creator token proposal in a post on X, arguing there is no point in trying to “fix” creator coins because the model is inherently flawed.
i think creator coins are an inherently flawed concept that just leads to dead tokens like the other 11,000,000 tokens released a year and it’s not worth trying to fix
— Shibetoshi Nakamoto (@BillyM2k) February 1, 2026
Markus said the concept tends to produce “dead tokens,” comparing it to the large number of short-lived tokens released each year and framing the effort as weak product-market fit. Buterin’s thread, by contrast, floated pairing curated creator DAOs with prediction-market dynamics to steer incentives toward quality outcomes.
Next, stakeholders will watch for follow-up from Buterin or Markus and any concrete design parameters that turn the debate into actionable guardrails for creator-token platforms.
Source: Shibetoshi Nakamoto (Billy Markus), X.
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