The Ethereum Foundation released the EF Mandate today, a foundational document it says functions as part constitution, part manifesto. The 38-page document, published by the EF’s board today, March 13, as a PDF and on-chain, aims to articulate the "promise of Etheruem,” as well as the EF’s role in the ecosystem.
Per the Mandate, the EF defines its role not as Ethereum's owner or ruler, but as a steward with one core mission: ensuring Ethereum becomes and stays a decentralized, resilient tool for user self-sovereignty.
The Mandate also reaffirms the definition of Ethereum as humanity's "World Computer" as the ecosystem’s first “promise” — what the EF says represents a “common computational substrate that anyone can interact with trustlessly, permissionlessly, and persistently.” Ethereum’s second promise, per the EF Mandate, is to enable self-sovereign coordination at scale, without coercion or capture.
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