Vitalik Buterin stated that the Ethereum Foundation released a new EF Mandate, reaffirming its role in the Ethereum ecosystem as a "guardian." The document emphasizes that the foundation will focus on promoting core principles such as censorship resistance, capture resistance, open source, privacy and security (CROPS), while prioritizing decentralization, security and verifiability at the protocol layer, and promoting tools and experiences that prioritize user privacy and autonomy at the application layer. Vitalik said that Ethereum's goal is to become a "refuge technology" that maintains technical self-sovereignty and prevents a single power from controlling the network space.