Ethereum Foundation Reorganizes Management Amidst Growing Pressure for 2025 Scaling Solutions
Revamped Ethereum Foundation Takes a Leap Forward
The Ethereum Foundation (EF) is diving headfirst into a new phase, with two fresh co-executives leading the charge and a clarified strategic vision. In a trilogy of blog posts, published on Monday, 28 April, new co-executives Hsiao-Wei Wang and Tomasz K. Stańczak voiced their intentions to shake things up.
These new co-leaders, who have shared the reins for nearly a month, declared the "honeymoon phase" to be over and the time for action is here. The two set the tone by signaling an end to the silent handover period, ushering in an assertive push to redefine the Swiss-based foundation's inner workings and external priorities.
The experiment of having twin executive leaders is aimed at tackling single-point weaknesses. "EF isn't a two-headed beast pulling in separate directions," Wang and Stańczak stated. Instead, they stressed that their relationship is based on mutual respect, trust, and shared values.
A New Era for Ethereum Foundation
For the next year, the Foundation's strategies will center on three core areas: scaling the Layer 1 mainnet, optimizing data-availability blobs, and improving user experience across Layer 2s and the application layer. Stańczak highlighted the importance of speed, accountability, and clear goals, guaranteeing the Ethereum mainnet will remain "a global, neutral network, a protocol esteemed for its trustless nature."
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Beyond personnel changes, the structural reform reaches further. An independent post by the board characterized itself as "a governing council safeguarding the essence of EF," tasked with high-level visioning and Swiss regulatory adherence. Vitalik Buterin retains his board seat and offers ongoing technical and intellectual guidance, along with Wang, Aya Miyaguchi (EF president), and Patrick Storchenegger (Swiss counsel) forming the current board.
Remarkably, Stańczak's operational tenure is time-limited, agreeing to serve a two-year term. His expertise in strategic execution and his extensive experience make him valuable during a bustling moment for the Ethereum ecosystem. Wang will serve as a conduit between the board, executives, and management, acting as a bridge between the parties.
In a post titled "The Ethereum Foundation's Vision," Miyaguchi and Buterin recast EF as the stewards of an "Infinite Garden." Their philosophy revolves around "purposeful subtraction," embodying the notion that "we tackle what no one else can today. We help others achieve tomorrow what only we can today."
Priorities for 2025
EF reaffirms its commitment to fostering meaningful use of Ethereum – via internet-native finance, decentralized social media, or on-chain AI coordination – while bolstering the "resilience of Ethereum's technical and social infrastructure." Core values like censorship resistance, open-source ideologies, privacy, and security will remain steadfast.
Wang emphasizes the importance of fortifying the EF's operations to support the ecosystem's growth. She plans to boost developer and user experiences, clarify standards, strengthen ecosystems, and streamline the journey from concept to live applications. Stańczak will focus on protocol-level scalability and architecting Layer 2 solutions.
Stańczak and Wang underscored the necessity of community engagement, with a promise of increased presence for applications and L2s at events like Devcon. Furthermore, they pledged to accelerate their communication frequency and to engage in difficult dialogues proactively. The shared goal between the co-executives is to prove that Ethereum can scale without sacrificing its core values in 2025.
As of press time, ETH trades at $1.814. The new dual-leadership model will be tested in the coming months as they strive to address mainnet throughput, blobspace efficiency, and cross-rollup UX. For now, the foundation's message remains clear: though the guards have changed, core values remain unaltered. - As reported by Coindesk, CoinTelegraph, TheBlockCrypto, Decrypt, and Bitcoin Magazine.
Insights: The Ethereum Foundation's recently outlined priorities include:
- Enhancing Layer 1 mainnet scalability through protocol optimizations, such as sharding, focused on maintaining censorship resistance and core security values.
- Improving Layer 2 and ecosystem coordination, emphasizing interoperability between L2 solutions, standardizing developer experiences, and increasing visibility for L2s at key events, like Devcon.
- Optimizing data availability blobs, benefiting L2 efficiency, employing EIP-4844's optimized blob-carrying transactions within blocks.
The Foundation's co-executives prioritize measurable outcomes and velocity while focusing on integrating seamlessly across these layers to improve transaction costs and address congestion. Technical work aims to streamline the integration between various layers to solve issues related to transaction costs and network congestion.
- The Ethereum Foundation's newly appointed co-executives, Hsiao-Wei Wang and Tomasz Stańczak, steered the organization in April, aiming to strengthen Ethereum's inner workings and external priorities.
- For the next year, the Foundation intends to focus on three strategic areas: scaling the Layer 1 mainnet, optimizing data-availability blobs, and improving user experience across Layer 2s and the application layer.
- Aya Miyaguchi, the EF president, envisions Ethereum as an "Infinite Garden," emphasizing purposeful subtraction and the importance of tackling what no one else can today.
- Miyaguchi and Wang, under their leadership, plan to prioritize community engagement and accelerate communication frequency, promising increased presence for applications and Layer 2s at events like Devcon.
