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Vitalik Buterin unveils leadership with significant changes within the Ethereum Foundation.
These changes aim to enhance technical expertise and strengthen communication with builders in the Ethereum ecosystem.
In a January 18 post on X, Buterin outlined key objectives for the foundation’s restructuring, focusing on better support for decentralized application developers while reinforcing decentralization, privacy, but also censorship resistance.
He also emphasized that the Ethereum Foundation would avoid ideological shifts, political lobbying, or assuming a more centralized role in Ethereum’s development.
This leadership shake-up comes after a turbulent 2024, during which the foundation faced criticism from the Ethereum community over its spending, roadmap decisions, and internal management.
Vitalik on X:
“We are indeed currently in the process of large changes to EF leadership structure, which has been ongoing for close to a year. Some of this has already been executed on and made public, and some is still in progress.
What we’re trying to achieve is primarily the following goals:
* Improve the level of technical expertise within EF leadership
* Improve two-way communications and ties between EF leadership and the ecosystem actors, old and new, that it is our role to support: users (individual and institutional), app devs, wallets, L2s
* Bring in fresh talent, improve execution ability and speed
* Become more actively supportive of app builders, and make sure important values and inalienable rights (esp privacy, open source, censorship resistance) are a reality for users including at the app layer
* Continue to increase our use of decentralized and privacy tech and the Ethereum chain, including for payments and treasury management
Explicit non-goals are:
* Execute some kind of ideological / vibez pivot from feminized wef soyboy mentality to bronze age mindset
* Start aggressively lobbying regulators and powerful political figures (especially in the USA, but really anywhere, especially large powerful countries), and risking compromising Ethereum’s position as a global neutral platform
* Become an arena for vested interests
* Become a highly centralized org, or even more of a “main character” within Ethereum
These things aren’t what EF does and this isn’t going to change. People seeking a different vision are welcome to start their own orgs.”
