In these five years, the Ethereum Foundation is entering a period of mild austerity, in order to be able to simultaneously meet two goals: 1. Deliver on an aggressive roadmap that ensures Ethereum's status as a performant and scalable world computer that does not compromise on robustness, sustainability and decentralization. 2. Ensures the Ethereum Foundation's own ability to sustain into the long term, and protect Ethereum's core mission and goals, including both the core blockchain layer as well as users' ability to access and use the chain with self-sovereignty, security and privacy. To this end, my own share of the austerity is that I am personally taking on responsibilities that might in another time have been "special projects" of the EF. Specifically, we are seeking the existence of an open-source, secure and verifiable full stack of software and hardware that can protect both our personal lives and our public environments ( see ). This includes applications such as finance, communication and governance, blockchains, operating systems, secure hardware, biotech (including both personal and public health), and more. If you have seen the Vensa announcement (seeking to make open silicon a commercially viable reality at least for security-critical applications), the including recent versions with built in ZK + FHE + differential-privacy features, the air quality work, my donations to encrypted messaging apps, my own enthusiasm and use for privacy-preserving, walkaway-test-friendly and local-first software (including operating systems), then you know the general spirit of what I am planning to support. For this reason I have just withdrawn 16,384 ETH, which will be deployed toward these goals over the next few years. I am also exploring secure decentralized staking options that will allow even more capital from staking rewards to be put toward these goals in the long term. Ethereum itself is an indispensable part of the "full-stack openness and verifiability" vision. The Ethereum Foundation will continue with a steadfast focus on developing Ethereum, with that goal in mind. "Ethereum everywhere" is nice, but the primary priority is "Ethereum for people who need it". Not corposlop, but self-sovereignty, and the baseline infrastructure that enables cooperation without domination. In a world where many people's default mindset is that we need to race to become a big strong bully, because otherwise the existing big strong bullies will eat you first, this is the needed alternative. It will involve much more than technology to succeed, but the technical layer is something which is in our control to make happen. The tools to ensure your, and your community's, autonomy and safety, as a basic right that belongs to everyone. Open not in a bullshit "open means everyone has the right to buy it from us and use our API for $200/month" way, but actually open, and secure and verifiable so that you know that your technology is working for you.

I have completely changed the way I manage my finances in the last 9 months. I used to track all of my assets on a spreadsheet, including public stocks, private investments, fund investments, real estate, cars, collectibles, etc. I promised myself that I would update the spreadsheet once per week, but it became really time-consuming so I probably did it only once per month. I was always frustrated by this approach because the spreadsheet wasn’t dynamic or real-time. It also didn’t allow me to glean any substantial insights outside of the value of my assets and my total net worth. Eventually I realized there was a better way. I began uploading aspects of my financial life to general purpose LLMs and asking specific questions around identifying risk in my portfolio, making more money, better estate planing, or lowering my tax rate. I was shocked at how good the insights were. Literally superhuman intelligence being applied to my personal financial situation. The difficulty with this approach was that I had to constantly re-upload my details every time I wanted to ask the LLM questions. This is when @shaincodes and I started working on a solution to make this easier for me. We eventually built @cfosilvia, which allowed me to connect all my financial accounts and then leverage the best A.I. models to help me better manage my portfolio and finances. Since publicly launching Silvia so anyone could use the product for free, we now have thousands of people signed up, tens of thousands of accounts verified, and billions of dollars in assets connected to the platform. I truly believe Silvia is the most powerful personal finance product in the world. You can try it free here:

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