#2026年比特币行情展望 What is the true mission of Ethereum? Vitalik recently revisited this question.

On January 6th, Ethereum founder Vitalik published a heavyweight reflection, with the core point focusing on one sentence: "Ethereum was never created to make finance more efficient or applications more convenient, but to fight for human freedom." This sentence comes from the "Declaration of Trustlessness." It may seem simple, but it actually touches on the fundamental logic of the entire ecosystem.

Think about it—what do "efficiency" and "convenience" mean? In the eyes of Silicon Valley folks, it’s about reducing latency from 473 milliseconds to 368 milliseconds, increasing APY yields from 4.5% to 5.3%, or making users click three times instead of once. Sounds good. But honestly— we can never outdo those tech giants in optimization. They have more capital, more talent, and deeper technical expertise. This is not a game you can win.

So, what game is Ethereum playing? It’s called "Resilience."

Resilience doesn’t care about 4.5% vs 5.3%; it cares about how to survive the risk of -100%. Resilience means that even if your account is frozen due to political reasons, your application developer goes bankrupt, infrastructure providers go offline, or even if internet wars break out, this network should still run, latency should still be 2000 milliseconds or whatever, unaffected.

The ultimate form of resilience is—any person, anywhere, any identity can access this network equally, and become a top-tier participant. No one can lock you out.

From another perspective, resilience equals sovereignty. Just like the concept of "food sovereignty"—actively cutting off external dependencies that could be arbitrarily severed, minimizing fragility. This is the battlefield where Ethereum truly excels.

Therefore, Ethereum’s top priority and most important task is to become a truly decentralized, permissionless, and resilient blockchain space. Everything else—including performance and ecological prosperity—are built on this foundation. $BTC