Ethereum Foundation: a deeper look at protocol cluster priority "hardness"

The Ethereum Foundation has set "hardness" as one of three protocol cluster priorities, alongside scaling and UX, to preserve Ethereum's core guarantees of open source, censorship resistance, privacy, security, permissionlessness, and trust minimization as the network grows. Thomas Thiery will steward censorship resistance and permissionlessness, Fredrik Svantes security, privacy and trust minimization, and Parithosh Jayanthi infrastructure, upgrades and resilience. Listed work includes network resilience through fuzzing, reducing fund loss from phishing and drainers, private transfers at the protocol level, and post-quantum cryptography preparation.