Svmuu News: vitalik.eth posted on X, stating that DeFi is a core component of the "Ethereum" and that financial empowerment is key to achieving autonomy and freedom. Ethereum The Ethereum Foundation’s (EF) vision for DeFi is to build a global financial system that is permissionless, open-source, private, and security-first—maximizing user control over assets, minimizing centralized bottlenecks and trusted third parties, and democratizing risk management, wealth accumulation, and payments.The Foundation emphasizes that protocols must pass a “deprecation test,” ensuring they continue to operate even if the original team disappears or is attacked. To realize this vision, the Foundation focuses on the following areas: enhancing security through audits, standards, and wallet-side security measures; improving security through AI-assisted formal verification and client-side proxies; increasing the security and decentralization of oracles;advancing privacy-preserving payments and privacy for more complex use cases; and improving open-source licensing and forking capabilities. The Foundation expresses its willingness to collaborate with all parties committed to building a permissionless, open-source DeFi ecosystem that reduces intermediaries and enhances security and user autonomy, making it the platform of choice for individuals and institutions on the "Ethereum" and providing wealth management solutions globally.