--- title: The Promise of Ethereum: Introducing the EF Mandate description: The Ethereum Foundation has published the EF Mandate, a foundational document outlining the organization's mission, principles, and commitments. The mandate... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-promise-of-ethereum-introducing-the-ef-mandate-seerxwyyy twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Promise of Ethereum: Introducing the EF Mandate | daily.dev og:description: The Ethereum Foundation has published the EF Mandate, a foundational document outlining the organization's mission, principles, and commitments. The mandate... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-promise-of-ethereum-introducing-the-ef-mandate-seerxwyyy og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/sEeRXWyYY.png og:image:alt: The Promise of Ethereum: Introducing the EF Mandate og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Promise of Ethereum: Introducing the EF Mandate **[Ethereum](https://daily.dev/sources/ethereum)** · 4 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The Ethereum Foundation has published the EF Mandate, a foundational document outlining the organization's mission, principles, and commitments. The mandate centers on preserving user self-sovereignty and ensuring Ethereum remains censorship-resistant, open source, private, and secure (CROPS). It clarifies the EF's role as one steward among many rather than a central authority, and has been published on-chain for anyone to read, reinterpret, and remix. The document is framed as a response to a rapidly changing world where AI-mediated environments and less accountable systems make Ethereum's original promise more relevant than ever. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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