Cryptographic assets are the most friendly existence for ordinary individuals among the four major trends of the future.

Vitalik expressed the complex relationship between 'institutions' and 'cypherpunks' in a post on Farcaster. According to Foresight News, he stated that institutions are neither friends nor enemies. Vitalik cited examples where the EU supports open-source software while promoting chat control; the US government acts through the Patriot Act but uses Signal.

Vitalik believes that the strategy of institutions is to control their own domains and resist external intervention. He predicts that in the next era, institutions will reduce their reliance on external trust. In the stablecoin space, asset issuers hope that the governance focus of the chain will not lean too much towards a single country, and governments will promote more KYC processes, while privacy tools will also improve. Vitalik emphasizes that Ethereum is a censorship-resistant world computer, and cypherpunks should have an open attitude towards mutually beneficial cooperation while defending their own interests, with the core being the protection of autonomy and freedom in financial, social, and identity dimensions.