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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
We are indeed currently in the process of large changes to EF leadership structure, which has been ongoing for close to a year. Some of this has already been executed on and made public, and some is still in progress. What we're trying to achieve is primarily the following goals: * Improve level of technical expertise within EF leadership * Improve two-way communications and ties between EF leadership and the ecosystem actors, old and new, that it is our role to support: users (individual and institutional), app devs, wallets, L2s * Bring in fresh talent, improve execution ability and speed * Become more actively supportive of app builders, and make sure important values and inalienable rights (esp privacy, open source, censorship resistance) are a reality for users including at the app layer * Continue to increase our use of decentralized and privacy tech and the Ethereum chain, including for payments and treasury management ...
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Vitalik Buterin
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... Explicit *non-goals* are: * Execute some kind of ideological / vibez pivot from feminized wef soyboy mentality to bronze age mindset * Start aggressively lobbying regulators and powerful political figures (esp in USA, but really anywhere, especially large powerful countries), and risking compromising Ethereum's position as a global neutral platform * Become an arena for vested interests * Become a highly centralized org, or even more of a "main character" within Ethereum These things aren't what EF does and this isn't going to change. People seeking a different vision are welcome to start their own orgs.
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Sebastian Bürgel
@scbuergel
I'll strongman the unpopular argument that the EF should refocus on building max value-aligned tools and products The subtractive mindset of EF is a great idea in theory to foster a healthy ecosystem and level playing field. But in practice, it has enabled a max value-extractive mindset among leading tools and products, which year by year stray further from the Cypherpunk values you try to promote through (actually great) blogs and social media outreach. Specifically, I see: - Virtually no Ethereum wallets or apps on FOSS mobile marketplaces: https://warpcast.com/scbuergel/0x2dded415 - No major wallets or apps supporting light client verification or anonymous RPC transport, and therefore - No incentive to develop or promote resilience services like these, but instead - More fragmentation around commercial services with corner-cutting for Web2-style VC-pleasing vanity growth metrics ...
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Sebastian Bürgel
@scbuergel
... In hindsight (which isn't about regret but learning), imagine if: - Mist had shaped a wallet landscape grounded in Cypherpunk values rather than commercial wallets discovering "swap fee extraction great" -> "selling order flow greater" -> "institutional value extraction infra is the greatest" -> rekt user/infra/ecosystem - DeFi interfaces had started as decentralized, rather than relying on .org/.fi/.com domains, leading to regulatory issues, self-censorship, and user tracking to pad vanity metrics - There had been early demand for full-stack "world computer" technology, instead of today's casino tech dominance EF could still turn the ship around - though at higher cost now - by building tools and services that serve as lighthouses, inducing demand for Cypherpunk-aligned infrastructure and UX that proves decentralized apps can be superior. The VC-driven web3 app industry won't get us there but EF could be the counterweight - by building!
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Vitalik Buterin
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EF should ramp up its involvement on the application layer, and it should support initiatives to build more value-aligned applications.
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