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According to Vitalik Buterin, institutions are neither natural allies nor enemies of cypherpunks. He stated that the goal of institutions is to maximize control and minimize external trust, focusing on sovereignty and data security. Institutions are likely to favor self-custody and staking, which support the decentralization of Ethereum, while KYC and privacy technologies evolve alongside ongoing debates around zero-knowledge proofs. He added that Ethereum's main mission is to create tools that protect individual self-sovereignty while collaborating with institutions. link