PANews reported on April 21 that the new co-executive director of the Ethereum Foundation, Tomasz K. Stańczak, wrote that the Foundation will shift its research and development focus to L1 expansion, L2 support and user experience optimization, covering protocol upgrades such as Pectra, Fusaka and Glamsterdam. Vitalik Buterin will reduce daily coordination work and focus on research promotion, including RISC‑V, zkVM and privacy. He emphasized that the proposals of Vitalik and other researchers are exploratory content and require community discussion and review, with the goal of accelerating Ethereum's future breakthroughs.