Ethereum Foundation Reorganizes Leadership Around New Roadmap

The Ethereum Foundation has reorganized to focus on its new, simplified roadmap, which includes scaling the L1, scaling blobs, and improving the user experience (UX).

In a blog post, core developers Barnabé Monnot, Tim Beiko and Alex Stokes declared that Ethereum stands at a crossroads.

“The world is ready for the world computer,” the trio wrote. “This moment may be Ethereum’s best shot at deploying not only our technology, but our values, at planetary scale.”

As a result, they said “​​we must rethink our current approach to designing, developing and stewarding the protocol. This process of ‘shipping protocol’ is messy, asking us to respond proactively to demands that are hard to articulate and even harder to fulfill.”

That means the Protocol Research and Development teams must change how they work, reorienting themselves towards the EF’s three new goals.

The team tasked with scaling the Layer 1 will be led by Beiko and Ansgar Dietrichs going forward. Scaling Layer 2 (including blobs) will be handled by Stokes and Francesco D’Amato, while improving the UX will be in the hands of Monnot & Josh Rudolf.

Blobs are a temporary data storage solution that attach to Ethereum blocks for a limited period, making it possible for L2s to post data to the Ethereum L1 far more cheaply.

Working Together

This doesn’t mean the three teams will be in silos, Monnot, Beiko and Stokes said.

“More than ever, we are required to solve problems bringing the abilities of all Protocol members at once,” they said.

Still, Ethereum is on the edge of “major breakthroughs,” the trio added.

They said “zkEVMs have rapidly accelerated, enabling us to re-architect L1 to simultaneously support scale, verifiability, security and censorship-resistance. L2s are hardening, meeting users where they are, and eager to double down on using Ethereum as their root of trust.”

The EF also restructured its top leadership recently, replacing Executive Director Aya Miyaguchi with co-executive directors Hsiao-Wei Wang and Tomasz Stańczak.

Ether is up 1% today at $2,630, but flat over the last week, according to The Defiant’s price page.