PANews reported on May 25th that, according to The Block, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published a lengthy post on the X platform, responding to the recent turmoil and wave of researcher departures at the Ethereum Foundation. Buterin stated that the foundation is choosing "long-term survival over being big and all-encompassing," reducing ETH sales and focusing on Ethereum's CROPS attributes such as censorship resistance, open source, privacy, and security. He emphasized that the post represents only his personal views, and that his power within the organization will continue to decrease, which aligns with his wishes. Buterin believes that EF should be understood as "a node with a clear purpose, standing alongside other nodes," rather than the center of Ethereum.

Buterin pointed out that the foundation holds approximately 0.16% of ETH, while other blockchain foundations typically hold 10% to 50% of their own token supply. The foundation will focus on key activities that only it can drive, with some respected contributors and projects remaining outside the foundation, which will help attract external capital. Regarding technological direction, Buterin outlined three priorities: achieving a "provably vulnerability-free Ethereum" through AI-assisted formal verification, usable chain consensus, and minimizing intermediaries. He explicitly opposed Ethereum's reliance solely on speed competition, calling it "the road to mediocrity." Buterin concluded by stating that EF will be smaller than in previous years, with a more defined stance that may be difficult to understand in some situations, but it will also be more sustainable. The foundation's new long-term operating model should stabilize in the coming months.