Vitalik Redraws Ethereum Foundation’s Role Vitalik Buterin (@VitalikButerin) says the Ethereum Foundation is not the center of Ethereum $ETH, but a smaller node with a focused mission. He said the Foundation will become leaner, more opinionated, and more focused on long term priorities. Those priorities include censorship resistance, openness, privacy, security, and reducing capture risks across the network.

Vitalik Buterin Pushes Native Privacy For Ethereum Vitalik Buterin (@VitalikButerin) outlined three near term Ethereum $ETH upgrades aimed at making privacy a built in network feature. The proposals include account abstraction, FOCIL, keyed nonces, and new access layer privacy tools. The upgrades are designed to make private transactions harder to censor and reduce user tracking across the network.

As Vitalik put it: “It’s meant to be the secure chain, the decentralized chain, the chain you can rely on.” Ethereum is not optimized for speed. It is built to be trusted. For validators, that means one thing: consistency, reliability, and performance over time.

🎙️ Vitalik Buterin @VitalikButerin, Co-founder of Ethereum @ethereum, and Dr. Xiao Feng, Chairman of Wanxiang Blockchain @WXblockchain, Chairman and CEO of HashKey Group @HashKeyGroup are joining a fireside chat at the Ethereum Applications Gathering. ⏰ Apr. 22 | 11:30 - 17:30 📍 MainStage, HK WEB3 FESTIVAL 🔗Livestream: #AppGathering# #Ethereum# #Web3Festival# #EAG#

LATEST: ⚡ Vitalik Buterin says the Ethereum Foundation will become “a smaller ship,” sell less ETH and focus only on work tied to Ethereum’s resilience, openness, privacy and security.

LATEST: ⚡ Vitalik Buterin says Ethereum is moving to make privacy native to the network, with three upcoming upgrades targeting censorship resistance, on-chain transaction linking, and private wallet reads.