The Ethereum Foundation's Next Chapter

Hi! This is Hsiao-Wei and Tomasz co-writing this blog post. We've present been successful our caller Co-Executive Director roles for astir a month. The honeymoon is over, it's clip to get moving.

A Moment of Transition and Opportunity

Ethereum has ever been a journey: a perpetually evolving ecosystem powered by radical who judge successful gathering a much unfastened and decentralized world. While the Ethereum Foundation (EF) whitethorn beryllium a decennary old, it remains consenting to reinvent itself.

This year, EF embraced a caller enactment exemplary with dual Executive Directors. This plan brings divers and complementary perspectives, enhancing our quality to conscionable analyzable challenges. We are excited to clasp the opportunities and challenges ahead, guided by a heavy committedness to Ethereum’s halfway values and a imaginativeness grounded successful stewardship, coordination, and semipermanent thinking.

Importantly, EF is not a two-headed carriage pulling successful antithetic directions. Our narration is built connected communal respect, trust, and shared values. We collaborate closely, situation each different constructively, and yet determination guardant arsenic a agreed squad with shared goals.

Our Principles and Focus Areas

Looking ahead, we volition beryllium moving with 2 pillars: Guiding Principles (our halfway values) and Objectives (our pursuit of interaction and resilience). Technical excellence underpins each that we bash and it’s the instauration that enables america to present connected our mission.

Our occupation arsenic Executive Directors is to instrumentality EF’s vision successful a perpetually changing world. Our relation includes strategical planning, ecosystem stewardship, squad leadership, and operational oversight. All successful enactment of Ethereum's semipermanent success.

Values we champion:

• Censorship Resistance: Ensuring that Ethereum remains an unfastened web wherever anyone, anywhere, tin transact and physique without barriers oregon outer control.
• Open Source Innovation: Fostering collaboration, transparency, and community-driven improvement done openly shared cognition and tools.
• Privacy Protection: Safeguarding idiosyncratic state and autonomy successful a integer satellite by enabling backstage interactions without sacrificing security.
• Security: Maintaining trust, robustness, and resilience crossed the Ethereum ecosystem by prioritizing unafraid plan and continuous research.

These values are the instauration that usher our method choices, our enactment for the ecosystem, and our semipermanent imaginativeness for Ethereum arsenic a nationalist good.

While remembering these values, we’ve acceptable large directions for the adjacent 12 months:

• Scaling Ethereum mainnet
• Scaling blobs
• Improving UX, including L2 interop + exertion layer

Together, that means improving mainnet and L2s interoperability and coodination, UX, DevEx, giving applications and L2s much beingness and attraction astatine Devcon, amplifying their messages via connection channels.

Beyond this, we recognize that we request to accelerate journeys of developers, founders, institutions done the pathways towards gathering connected Ethereum and adopting Ethereum. Ethereum Foundation has cognition and leaders who tin mentor, lead, attract, and onboard talent.

Tomasz’s Note

Ethereum starts the adjacent chapter. The values stay unchanged: unfastened source, censorship resistance, privacy, and security. The Ethereum Foundation changes - into an enactment that volition pass much and much openly, an enactment that volition beryllium consenting to participate hard dialogues without delay.

We volition absorption connected velocity of execution, accountability, wide goals, objectives, and metrics to track. We volition beryllium focused connected the occurrence of the Ethereum mainnet protocol. Ethereum mainnet volition stay a global, neutral network, a protocol trusted to beryllium trustless. We volition absorption connected the occurrence of Ethereum mainnet and the full ecosystem - L2s that bring wide adoption and galore benefits to the users, mainnet that stands arsenic some a coagulated stone and a nimble web down each the transactions and coordination mechanisms. We are excited astir the travel - a travel done 1 of the astir inspiring technological and societal shifts we volition ever experience, a travel that we volition embark connected unneurotic - visionaries and down-to-earth builders.

Ahead of america lies 1 twelvemonth of scaling - scaling Ethereum mainnet (L1), supporting the occurrence of L2 chains by providing them with the champion architecture to scale, to unafraid their networks, and to bring assurance to their users. Ahead of america is simply a absorption connected making the full ecosystem of chains consciousness similar 1 by delivering the champion UX, design, and interoperability, portion achieving scaling done engineering excellence and cutting-edge research.

Hsiao-Wei’s Note

In the adjacent fewer months, my precedence volition beryllium connected strengthening the EF’s operations to enactment the ecosystem’s growth. An adaptable and susceptible instauration helps america amended service Ethereum’s semipermanent mission.

As we determination with sharper focus, 1 of our goals is to amended enactment Ethereum’s exertion layer. We volition enactment builders and users by improving the developer and idiosyncratic experience, clarifying standards, strengthening ecosystems, and smoothing the travel from ideas to unrecorded applications.

We are moving to amended however we plan, prioritize, and coordinate crossed teams wrong EF and crossed the broader ecosystem, keeping our efforts aligned with assemblage needs and Ethereum’s cypherpunk spirit. Strengthening EF is lone 1 portion of the transition. The existent momentum comes from the vigor and creativity of the planetary Ethereum ecosystem.

A Future Built Together

Ethereum is not a monolith. It is simply a living, breathing web of communities, builders, researchers, artists, educators, and dreamers. It is global, diverse, and proudly decentralized. We are continually inspired by the creativity and resilience of the ecosystem. EF volition proceed to amusement up wherever we’re astir needed, but besides marque abstraction erstwhile the ecosystem flourishes connected its own. This is simply a community-led future.

The roadworthy up is afloat of possibilities. Ethereum has already transformed what's imaginable successful technology, finance, governance, and beyond. To everyone building, teaching, researching, experimenting, and imagining caller futures: thank you. Together, we are gathering thing bigger than immoderate 1 team, project, oregon generation. We’re honored to locomotion this way with you, and we’re excited for each that’s ahead.