Vitalik: The Ethereum Foundation is entering a period of moderate austerity, and I will personally contribute 16,000 ETH to promote an open-source, verifiable, full-stack ecosystem.

PANews reported on January 30 that Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin stated in an article published on the X platform that the Ethereum Foundation is entering a period of moderate austerity over the past five years, aiming to achieve two major goals simultaneously: first, to deliver an aggressive roadmap to ensure that Ethereum becomes a high-performance, scalable world computer without sacrificing robustness, sustainability, and decentralization; and second, to ensure the Foundation's own long-term sustainable development capabilities and uphold Ethereum's core mission, including the core blockchain layer and users' ability to access and use the chain with self-sovereignty, security, and privacy.

To this end, Vitalik himself will personally assume some of the responsibilities that may have previously belonged to the foundation's "special projects." The focus is on promoting the construction of an open-source, secure, and verifiable full-stack software and hardware system to protect the security and privacy of individuals and public environments, covering multiple fields such as finance, communications, governance, blockchain, operating systems, security hardware, and biotechnology. Therefore, he has just withdrawn 16,384 ETH, which will be used over the next few years to advance these goals and explore secure decentralized staking solutions, with the long-term aim of investing more staking rewards into these objectives.

Vitalik emphasized that Ethereum itself is an indispensable part of realizing the vision of "full-stack openness and verifiability." The foundation will continue to focus firmly on the development of Ethereum, with its core priority being to serve those who truly need it—providing self-sovereign infrastructure, rather than simply pursuing commercial expansion. In today's environment that values ​​power competition, building a truly open, secure, and verifiable technological foundation is a crucial way to ensure the autonomy and security of individuals and communities.