PANews reported on January 18 that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin wrote that a large-scale change is currently being made to the leadership structure of the Ethereum Foundation. This change has been going on for nearly a year. Some of these changes have been implemented and announced, while some are still in progress. The main goals are to achieve the following:
- Increase the level of technical expertise among the Ethereum Foundation’s leadership;
- Improve two-way communication and engagement between the Ethereum Foundation leadership and new and existing ecosystem participants. The Ethereum Foundation’s role is to support: users (individuals and institutions), application developers, wallets, L2;
- Introduce fresh talents to improve execution capabilities and speed;
- More actively supporting application developers to ensure that important values and inalienable rights (especially privacy, open source, censorship resistance) are a reality for users, including at the application layer;
- Continue to increase the use of decentralized and privacy technologies and the Ethereum chain, including for payments and funds management.
Things to avoid in the future include:
- to implement some kind of ideological/atmospheric shift;
- Start actively lobbying regulators and powerful politicians (especially in the US, but really anywhere, especially big countries) and risk compromising Ethereum’s position as a globally neutral platform;
- It has become an arena for vested interests;
- Become a highly centralized organization and even become the "protagonist" of Ethereum.
