Ethereum Foundation member: EF will focus on addressing MEV extraction and privacy shortcomings to make Ethereum a truly capture-resistant, permissionless infrastructure

According to ChainCatcher, Aerugo, a member of the Ethereum Foundation (EF) management and CSA Operator, published a post systematically outlining the mission of EF. Aerugo stated that the core mission of EF is to ensure that Ethereum becomes and remains truly permissionless sovereign infrastructure: censorship-resistant, un-captureable, open-source, private, and secure, supporting large-scale coordination without the need for trusted intermediaries.

He emphasized that EF’s work focuses on eliminating extractive and capture risks that may arise at the Ethereum protocol layer, especially MEV (Maximal Extractable Value) issues and the core challenge of lacking privacy-by-default. Aerugo described MEV as “the main battlefield of the next cypherpunk war,” and pointed out that “a public ledger without serious privacy by default is simply settlement-guaranteed surveillance infrastructure.”