I've never understood the argument that Ethereum focusing on these cypherpunk-style values is somehow anathema to stablecoins, DeFi, or other financial applications. Ethereum is the clear leader in all of those activities because it offers censorship-resistance (aka access), transparency (aka verifiability), and security (aka property rights). If you study the long history of financial services, the markets and systems that attract the most participants and capital do so because they are widely accessible yet protective of everyone's rights. In TradFi this is done via laws and regulations. In crypto we can do it with cryptography and incentives. The chains that sell out (or simp out) on these values because of a hack (or because some suit-wearing bank exec who is simultaneously lobbying to kill crypto asked them to) will never succeed with stablecoins, tokenization, or DeFi. Those chains are even worst than the TradFi alternative. Off-chain or on, the most reliable financial infrastructure is the one that's least likely to screw you. A Foundation that focuses on pithy marketing slogans or throws money at every bank doing innovation theater provides zero assurances to future users that they won't get screwed. A Foundation that embraces a philosophy like CROPS does. Kudos to the EF for sticking to what matters, in markets and beyond.