🚨VITALIK DEFINES ETHEREUM'S CORE MISSION: "SANCTUARY TECHNOLOGY."@VitalikButerin has publicly backed the newly released EF Mandate, framing @Ethereum as a "sanctuary technology" built to preserve self-sovereignty and enable cooperation without coercion.The Foundation will double down on CROPS (Censorship Resistance, Open Source, Privacy, and Security) at both the protocol and application layers.Vitalik explicitly states that Ethereum must pass the "walkaway test," signaling the protocol will never be optimi ...

This is the new EF Mandate.For many of you, the contents should be no surprise, and a clarification along the lines that we have been going and thinking for the past few months. But the clarification is nevertheless worth making.Ethereum is a unique object and has a unique role in the world. Its role is to be a sanctuary technology, to preserve technological self-sovereignty, to enable cooperation without coercion, domination or rugpulling, and to provide an escape hatch, to ensure that no single person, or ...