Ethereum Foundation reaffirms mission: focusing on anti censorship, privacy, and sovereign infrastructure Bastian Aue (Aerugo), interim co executive director of the Ethereum Foundation, stated in a statement that the foundation's mission is to ensure that Ethereum always exists as a truly permissionless sovereign infrastructure, with a focus on maintaining censorship resistance, open source, privacy, and security. The article points out that the foundation will not cater to short-term speculation or institutional interests. In the future, it will prioritize addressing systemic risks such as toxic MEVs, privacy breaches, centralized staking, and L2 dependencies, and promote long-term directions such as anti quantum encryption, private payments, and AI proxy wallets to prevent Ethereum from being "soft controlled" by the state, oligarchs, or centralized intermediaries. Aerugo also stated that his current body fat percentage is about 31%, which has affected his cognitive performance and energy in his current position. He promised to reduce his body fat percentage to below 25% by the end of this year and maintain it during his tenure at EF, otherwise he will resign without compensation.