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To everyone who cares about animal protection and animal welfare: there is a project called $AWF that has already donated 250 $ETH — around $500,000 USD in $USDT — directly toward helping animals and supporting welfare initiatives around the world. And now, we already have more than 80 $ETH raised and counting for the next donation. Official wallet: 0xbAd06a3CA84E4E2b489974d8918B5f7387e6dB8E Official transparency website: Animal Welfare Fund animalwelfarefund.xyz Everything is being tracked publicly, transparently, and in real time for anyone to verify. This movement grew even stronger after the recent donation made by Vitalik Buterin to the same address. What started as a simple idea is becoming a global movement driven by compassion, transparency, and collective action for animals that cannot speak for themselves. Now we respectfully ask the organizations and leaders involved to help bring clarity and visibility to these donations. We would truly appreciate support and public attention from @everydotorg , @EffectvAltruism, @Lewis_Bollard , and especially @VitalikButerin . People around the world are watching, believing, donating, and hoping that these resources are reaching the right hands and creating real impact for animal welfare. Transparency and communication can inspire even more people to join this mission. This is bigger than crypto. This is bigger than money. This is about compassion, responsibility, and building a future where technology can genuinely help save lives. We hope the world notices what is happening here — and stands together for the animals. @AWF_ETHCTO

Hello @EffectvAltruism team. We would like to kindly ask for a confirmation or update regarding the donations made by @VitalikButerin (64 ETH) and the $AWF community (200 ETH) toward the animal protection fund. Our community would appreciate more transparency about: • whether the funds were received, • which organizations received them, • and how the donations are being managed. This is an important movement for animal welfare supported by the Ethereum community, and many people are waiting for an official confirmation. Thank you very much. 🐾

Hello team at @everydotorg , I would like to kindly request confirmation and clarification regarding the receipt and allocation of donations related to the AWF project. According to community reports, 64 ETH allegedly linked to @VitalikButerin and later approximately 200 ETH from the $AWF community were sent through the platform. Could you please confirm which funds were actually received, which wallets or partner organizations they were distributed to, and how the administration, tracking, and auditing process of these assets is handled? If possible, we would also appreciate a record or list of the beneficiary organizations involved. Thank you for your attention and transparency.

Vitalik Buterin’s text is basically a “philosophical roadmap” for the future of the Ethereum Foundation and Ethereum itself. The main points: 1. The Ethereum Foundation does not want to be the “government of Ethereum” Vitalik repeatedly reinforces that the EF should not control the ecosystem. The idea is: * Less centralization * Less dependence on the foundation * More independent organizations * More external developers * More pluralism He admits that for years many people expected the EF to be “the center” of Ethereum, but now they actively want to prevent that. 2. He prefers an “idealistic Ethereum” over a corporate one The comparison with Google is important. He says that large companies often begin with strong ideals and later become: * corporate, * politically pressured, * surveillance-oriented, * financially driven, * ideologically controlled, * involved in narrative wars. And he fears that the same could happen to Ethereum. That is why he wants Ethereum to remain: * censorship resistant, * private, * decentralized, * difficult for governments or corporations to capture. 3. “CROPS” is the priority He practically defines Ethereum’s future identity around these values: * Censorship resistance * Resistance to capture * Openness * Privacy * Security In other words: Ethereum wants to compete more on freedom and robustness than simply on speed. 4. He does NOT want to win the TPS race at any cost Vitalik criticizes the mentality of: “1 million TPS and 250ms latency.” He says that if Ethereum becomes just another fast chain with slightly more decentralization: * it loses its identity, * it becomes “mediocre.” In his view, chains like Solana, BNB Chain, and others are already following that route. Ethereum wants to be different. 5. He wants Ethereum to become almost “scientifically perfect” This is probably the strongest part of the text. He talks about: * formal verification, * AI validating code, * a blockchain that is “provably bug-free,” * extremely resilient consensus, * resistance even under heavy attacks. He wants Ethereum to be: “deeply impressive technically.” Not just popular. 6. He hates dependence on intermediaries Vitalik criticizes: * centralized RPCs, * wallets leaking user data, * relays, * third-party infrastructure. He wants: * a more open mempool, * fairer inclusion, * wallets verifying the chain directly, * fewer central points of failure. This connects directly with privacy and censorship resistance. 7. ETH is the main economic “product” of Ethereum He openly admits something important: “The most valuable asset in the ecosystem is ETH.” And he makes clear that: * Ethereum secures hundreds of billions in value, * security and decentralization strengthen ETH, * he personally keeps almost all of his wealth in ETH. This signals extreme alignment. 8. The EF will become smaller and more “radical” The conclusion summarizes everything: The Ethereum Foundation will become: * smaller, * more focused, * more ideological, * longer-lasting, * less controlling. But more committed to Ethereum’s original principles. What does this mean in practice? The text suggests that Ethereum is entering a phase more similar to: * public infrastructure, * an internet protocol, * a neutral global layer, and less like: * a corporate startup chasing hype. Connection with $AWF and your interpretation The section where he says: “reducing animal cruelty is important” shows how he connects ethical causes with decentralized technology. This aligns directly with movements like the $AWF project: * community-driven, * decentralized coordination, * public cause, * onchain transparency, * social impact outside traditional systems. He is basically saying: technology is only worth it if it preserves human freedom and real ethical values. @VitalikButerin @EffectvAltruism @everydotorg @AWF_ETHCTO

### 🧭 1. The Ethereum Foundation is not “the center of Ethereum” Vitalik emphasizes that the foundation: * Does not control Ethereum * Is just **one node among many** * Will have increasingly reduced centralized influence The goal is to reduce direct control and increase true decentralization. --- ### ⚙️ 2. The EF is entering a new phase He explains that: * Many internal problems have already been resolved * The focus is now on **efficiency and mission clarity** * The foundation will become smaller and more “opinionated” And importantly: > spending less ETH to ensure long-term sustainability --- ### 🧠 3. His view of what “impressive” means He criticizes the idea that Ethereum should compete mainly on: * High TPS (speed) * Low latency Instead, he believes Ethereum should lead in deeper dimensions: * Security * Privacy * True decentralization * Resistance to censorship He refers to this as the “CROPS” dimension (freedom and resilience values). --- ### 🔐 4. Strong technical goals He highlights three key pillars: * **Nearly bug-free Ethereum** → using AI-assisted formal verification * **Hybrid security model** → resilient against both network failures and large-scale attacks * **Intermediary minimization** → reducing reliance on third parties for transaction inclusion --- ### 💰 5. The EF was never meant to be a permanent “government” He notes that: * The EF holds a very small portion of ETH (~0.16%) * Unlike other blockchains, it is not heavily centralized around a foundation * It was only designed to support early stages of Ethereum --- ### 🔮 6. Main conclusion Ethereum should: * Continue scaling * But more importantly, remain **fundamentally different from other networks** * Focus on freedom, security, and resistance to control And the EF will: * Become smaller in influence * Become more focused and ideological * Help push Ethereum toward a more distributed ecosystem @VitalikButerin

Some of my perspective on where the @ethereumfndn is going. First of all, this is only my own view. The board is not just me, and I have no extra special powers on the board that the other board members do not. @aerugoettinea is the one executing much of this transition. My input has been largely on technical questions. The board is in the process of expanding, and my own power within the org will continue to decrease, which is honestly what I want. The 2025 era brought many important improvements to EF and its ability to execute. Many issues were resolved, and EF continues to benefit from its improved efficiency and greater focus on concrete goals to this day. And so with those problems resolved, early this year, the largest remaining hole that I perceived was something different nagging at me: I would regularly spot people saying things like "vitalik says these beautiful things about ethereum needing to be decentralized, and have privacy, and be a sanctuary technology, but why do the EF's actions not reflect that?" Now, you may have been hearing something different. You may not have been sensing a feeling of crisis at all, and maybe were hearing people saying that finally we were taking execution and BD seriously and the main task for us is to keep going that way and be even better and faster. Then probably there is genuine difference between you and me, in what kinds of criticism I take most seriously, and what kinds of critics through their criticism are most able to make me feel pain. As an analogy, let's briefly switch over to a different domain. One belief you can have about Google is that it is a success story, and has brought a lot of good to humanity in organizing the world's information. Another belief you can have about Google is that they had a beautiful idealistic beginning, but at some point the corruption of mainstream corporate attitudes seeped in, and they slowly bit by bit completely abandoned the "don't be evil" slogan. My belief on Google specifically is probably somewhere between the two. BUT, if you had taken me back in time to ~2008, and offered me a button to press to make Google one or two standard deviations more "dogmatic", eg. give Richard Stallman permanent veto power over some key policies, I would immediately press it. Why? Because a choice for one company is not a choice for the world, or even one country. Google existed and exists in the context of a technology industry generally drifting away from early idealistic don't-be-evil roots and toward greed for financial gain, totalizing visions of accelerated superintelligence, infiltration by sociopaths, and craven capitulation to (or worse, active participation in) government pressure for ideological control, surveillance and war. And so *one company* doing something different, positioning itself to be what George Bernard Shaw calls the Unreasonable Man, resisting the trend of the times, would have been better for freedom, balance of power and stability of society as a whole, than *all* large companies bending to dominant trends. This is a part of my version of pluralism. This line of thinking is not just mine, but I also is not too far off from what Aya and others had in mind with the Mandate. Now how does this all get to the role of the EF? EF is not a "center of Ethereum", rather EF is "one node, with a defined purpose, alongside other nodes". We've always said that the EF should be the latter, but many in the Ethereum ecosystem (and even within the EF) wanted us to be the former. Now, we are taking action to ensure that we will be the latter. This is particularly important because EF is a limited organization, with limited resources and limited organizational capacity. The EF has only ~0.16% of all ETH (less than many other individual ETH holders), whereas among other blockchains it's common for "the central foundation" to have 10-50%. Fiscally, the EF was originally designed to fulfill a limited work scope defined in the token sale docs and other pre-launch materials (building the chain software; getting through Frontier, Homestead, Metropolis, Serenity), which was fully completed in 2022; it was not designed to be an eternal steward. And so today, the EF is choosing to use its remaining resources to pursue longevity over breadth (yes, this means we sell less ETH). The EF focuses *specifically* on those activities critical to the success of ethereum as a censorship/capture-resistant, open, private and secure system, that would not happen otherwise. This means making hard choices, and in some cases even activities that we highly approve of and people that we highly respect becoming outside of the EF. People of great technical talent, public respect and even alignment with the mission and CROPS being outside of the EF is in fact necessary if we want important tasks to be able to attract outside capital. This also means the EF taking opinionated stands culturally. This is all intended in cooperation with all other parts of ethereum. We recognize that many other parts of the ethereum world highly respect CROPS and related values. But highly respecting is not the same as choosing to specialize and totally dedicate to a domain (Compare in a different domain: I think reducing animal cruelty is important, and I like vegan food, but am not full unconditional vegan myself) EF is still in a transition period, and we expect its new long-term form to stabilize over the next few months. What are the guiding principles of this new form? Again, I am only one person, but I can give my answer from a technical perspective (there are also critical non-technical aspects). At the core, *Ethereum must be impressive*. We are living in an age of highly intelligent AI and all kinds of other technological acceleration. "Status quo EVM, with a hard fork or two a year to optimize for short-term needs of users" is not interesting. To some, "impressive" means: 250ms latency and 1M TPS. I think Ethereum trying to go that route is a mistake. Being as fast and as scalable as possible, and only a small epsilon more decentralized than the others, is a route to mediocrity, and if we try it we will lose. I think Ethereum should scale. But I think Ethereum should strive the hardest to be deeply impressive in a different dimension: the CROPS dimension. This means things like: * Provably bug-free Ethereum. This is a goal that all cybersecurity researchers would have thought is absurd and impossible, up until roughly 6 months ago. Now, it's on the cusp of being possible, thanks to AI-assisted formal verification. So we should be frontrunners in doing this. * Available chain consensus. Ethereum is, and with lean consensus will cotninue to be, the ONLY chain that has both (i) traditional-BFT style properties that it's safe under asynchrony up to a high level of fault tolerance, and (ii) the bitcoin PoW-style property that under synchrony it's safe up to 49% attackers. As far as I can tell, literally no other chain has this or is planning for it; bitcoin goes for (ii) only and most other chains go for (i) only. Some will remember I fought hard for this, Unreasonably insisting that it is not OK for ethereum to rely on social consensus and hard forks to rescue ethereum from 34% of nodes going offline. It's OK for chains like hyperledger, bnb, solana, tempo, etc. It's not OK for bitcoin or ethereum or eg. zcash. * Intermediary minimization. The fact that smart contract wallets, protocols like railgun, etc have to send transactions through intermediaries to get included onchain is honestly embarrassing, and it's a constant point of fragility. Hence the work on FOCIL and EIP-8141 (and 7701 and years of work before) to make transaction sending intermediary-minimized with public mempool and strong inclusion properties, in a truly general-purpose way, that covers not just eg. secp256r1, but also privacy protocols and much more. Kohaku is pushing intermediary minimization at the user layer, pulling Ethereum away from the dystopian status quo world where our wallets don't even verify the chain, send our private data out to a dozen third-party servers, and toward a brighter CROPS future. Some of these goals are Unreasonable - maybe Ethereum would be "fine" getting only 50% of the way - what if we depend on intermediaries, but make it easy to switch? But going 50% of the way would not make Ethereum Deeply Impressive in the CROPS way. So we push for 100%. Fortunately all these goals are compatible with high TPS, this is a major focus of research (esp. on scaling the state). Well-designed L2s can also help, especially L2s optimized for specific applications (eg. high-volume trading, privacy...). These goals are even compatible with significantly lower slot times, thanks to Raul's work on erasure-coded P2P, and many other optimizations. The most high-value "product" of the ethereum blockchain, financially speaking, is ETH the asset. Ethereum secures $250 billion of ETH. The types of properties of Ethereum that I mentioned above are very good for ETH the asset. Nearly 90% of my net worth is in ETH, and most of the remainder is ~$40m of onchain fiat of which every dollar has already been allocated for some open-source biotech or software or hardware initiative. That said, there are aspects of supporting ETH the asset - *necessary* aspects even - that are outside the scope of the EF. This is where we need other heroes (some of whom hold more ETH than the EF does) to step in and help. EF has been recently thinking more about how it will relate to other such organizations, and give them needed initial support. EF will be a smaller ship than in previous years, a more opinionated one - in some cases more opinionated in ways that might be difficult to comprehend - but a longer-lasting one, and one suited to making sure that ethereum brings something meaningful to the world. We are grateful to all those inside and outside the EF who are helping to make this happen.