According to Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum's primary goal is resilience against infrastructure failures and hostile environments, not merely optimizing for yield or speed. He argues that the risk of infrastructure failures causing volatility shocks is significantly higher than regulatory announcements. Buterin highlights past incidents, such as the Infura outage in November 2020 and a Cloudflare configuration error in November 2025, which disrupted access to Ethereum despite the blockchain continuing to function. While Ethereum aims for resilience, it faces challenges due to centralized chokepoints like RPC providers and sequencers, which can lead to disruptions even when the underlying protocol is working correctly. The focus is on ensuring continuous operation even when infrastructure providers fail or platforms deplatform users.

According to Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum's primary goal is resilience against infrastructure failures and hostile environments, not merely optimizing for yield or speed. He argues that the risk of infrastructure failures causing volatility shocks is significantly higher than regulatory announcements. Buterin highlights past incidents, such as the Infura outage in November 2020 and a Cloudflare configuration error in November 2025, which disrupted access to Ethereum despite the blockchain continuing to function. While Ethereum aims for resilience, it faces challenges due to centralized chokepoints like RPC providers and sequencers, which can lead to disruptions even when the underlying protocol is working correctly. The focus is on ensuring continuous operation even when infrastructure providers fail or platforms deplatform users.