1/ Today the EF is sharing a bit more about how it's approaching DeFi going forward:
2/ DeFi isn’t a speculative bet on the future. It’s the inevitable evolution of finance, driven by a simple truth:
financial autonomy is a right, not a privilege and it’s been a critical driver of Ethereum’s growth and adoption.
Read more: blog.ethereum.org/2026/02/23/…
3/ EF wants to see DeFi thrive, but it is opinionated about what that should look like: permissionless, censorship-resistant, privacy-first, self-custodial, and open source.
4/ Getting there is hard and part of its role is to defend these principles, support teams working toward them, showcase the ones doing it, and be clear about the path and why it matters.
5/ The Ethereum Foundation believes in Defipunk: not finance that’s marginally better than TradFi, but finance that couldn’t exist without Ethereum.
Let’s push for more finance that couldn’t exist without Ethereum.
Return to Defipunk.