Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum aims to empower users through resilience and sovereignty

Vitalik Buterin posted on the X platform that the original intention of Ethereum was not to enhance financial efficiency or application convenience, but to liberate users.

Vitalik Buterin (vitalik.eth) pointed out that while efficiency and convenience have value, the core competitiveness of Ethereum lies in resilience. Resilience is not about pursuing higher returns, but about minimizing the risk of 100% asset loss, ensuring that the network remains stable in extreme situations such as developer disappearance, platform bans, or network wars. Vitalik Buterin emphasized that resilience equals sovereignty, aiming to reduce vulnerability to external dependencies, making users equal participants rather than corporate dependents. The genes of Web2 technology are not suitable for building resilient systems, and the resilience of the financial industry is too one-sided. The primary task of Ethereum is to provide decentralized, permissionless, and resilient block space, and to achieve spatial sufficiency on this basis.