Ethereum Foundation's New Mandate Has The Community Divided | Bankless Takes
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The Ethereum Foundation dropped a a mandate document describing its values, describing its approach. This caused a reaction, let's say. Some some people loved it. Some people hated it. We're gonna discuss it today and give our takes because it is time for another Bankless Takes episode. David, we do these things whenever we're feeling, what, like, motivated that there's something to discuss. What's the what's the cadence of Bankless Takes episodes?
Yeah, when there when there is a conversation happening that you and I are like a part of or can contribute to or otherwise have takes about. Yeah. Ethereum is a very frequent topic of this. We've done other ones in the past as well. I think maybe the most common reason or, like, way that these episodes come about is somebody in the EF, usually Vitalik, releases a blog post, and everyone's talking about it and then therefore so do we, which is exactly what happened this Galaxy operates where digital assets and next generation infrastructure come together, serving institutions end to end. On th
Yeah. A lot of these are Ethereum related, let's say. I'm actually very curious in this conversation what your opinion is and how that contrasts with my opinion to see, like, whether there's a delta on that or not or whether we have somewhat similar opinion.
But tell us what happened. Usually don't have that much of delta.
That's true. But like, let's tease it. Let's just could be a big clash bankless nation. Alright. Could be the gloves are coming on. Yeah, gloves are coming off. Alright, David and Ryan are gonna brawl on this one. What happened was the foundation, the Ethereum Foundation released what they call an EF mandate. What was the EF mandate?
It was first a tweet, then a blog that linked to a 38 page document. It's not 38 pages of writing is probably a third of that. A lot of art, a lot of lot of just like, you know, blank pages, just title pages, very aesthetic. Aesthetically really like turned up the dials on this one. Yes. The idea, it was stated that the EF mandate is a document by the EF for the EF, but they are publishing it, you know, publicly so that anyone who is interested in following along, you know, the broader Ethereum community
can follow along. So as for the organization itself, it was for Yes.
The An internal guiding document. But then
also, it said also for fellow self sovereign individuals on the journey. So people in the theorem community as well as the secondary audience for this, you'd say,
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