"Ethereum Hardness Strategy Explained: Upholding the Bottom Line of Decentralization" (Authors: @fredrik0x, @soispoke, @parithosh_j; Translated by DeepFlow TechFlow) Hardness is one of Ethereum's three major priorities, emphasizing the continuous protection of core attributes such as censorship resistance, privacy, security, and permissionlessness during scaling and user experience improvements. Its goal is to prevent the introduction of centralization or intermediaries from weakening the system's fundamental nature during performance improvements. Specific practices include network resilience, user asset protection, on-chain privacy, system neutrality, post-quantum security preparation, and recovery mechanisms in abnormal situations, while using metrics to assess censorship resistance and privacy levels. Read more: