Svmuu News: Vitalik Buterin stated at the 2026 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival that the ultimate goal of Ethereum is to build a "self-sovereign" digital infrastructure where users do not need to trust any intermediaries, supporting a wide range of decentralized applications—from finance and social media to identity verification—and serving as a trust anchor for off-chain applications (such as private voting, prediction markets, and decentralized social media).