Ethereum Foundation executive director Aerugo has published a wide-ranging mandate note that puts censorship resistance, privacy, open-source infrastructure and security at the center of the EF’s future direction. The new Ethereum Foundation mandate post follows recent writing from Vitalik Buterin and Aya, moving the discussion from what the EF should be toward how it plans to execute. Aerugo framed the Foundation’s role around making Ethereum “real permissionless infrastructure for self-sovereignty,” with the network hardened against capture by states, cartels, intermediaries, surveillance systems and privileged market structure.