Source: Cointelegraph
Original: “Ethereum Foundation Restructures Leadership, Splits Board and Management”
The Ethereum Foundation, which supports the development of the Ethereum blockchain, has undergone a comprehensive reform of its leadership structure to separate the responsibilities of the management team and the board of directors.
The foundation noted in a blog post on April 28, 2025, that the board will act as a "security committee, protecting the core values and soul of the foundation," and will set the vision for the development of Ethereum, while the new management will focus on the strategic and operational execution of these visions.
The foundation added on the X platform the same day that Hsiao-Wei Wang and Tomasz K. Stańczak were appointed as co-executive directors on March 2 to realize these visions, focusing on promoting anti-censorship, open-source innovation, privacy, and security.
Wang and Stańczak's roles took effect on April 28, 2025, with the foundation setting a two-year term for Stańczak to address some significant challenges facing Ethereum. Stańczak's new role will balance with his work as the founder of the Ethereum infrastructure company Nethermind, as well as an upcoming Ethereum-focused venture capital firm.
Bastian Aue and Josh Stark also joined the management team, with Aue focusing on organizational strategy, recruitment, and training, while Stark is primarily responsible for project execution, communication, and marketing.
Board members include Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum Foundation chair Aya Miyaguchi, Swiss legal advisor Patrick Storchenegger, and Wang, who will serve as a bridge between the board and the management team.
Buterin will continue to provide technical and intellectual guidance to the Ethereum ecosystem, Miyaguchi will oversee the foundation's vision and manage external relations, while Storchenegger will continue to handle legal and compliance matters.
The board is responsible for selecting Wang and Stańczak as executive directors—they acknowledged that this is an unusual decision and that they have the authority to terminate these positions.
Recently, as Synthetix founder Kain Warwick criticized the foundation for being "unconcerned" about decentralized finance innovation, the foundation has taken a more active role in the Ethereum ecosystem.
Other members of the Ethereum community have attributed the foundation's lack of engagement and leadership to Ethereum's (ETH) poor price performance compared to Bitcoin (BTC) and Solana (SOL).
The foundation stated that its main focus areas over the next 12 months will be expanding Ethereum's first layer, expanding the second layer's blob, and improving user experience.
Ethereum Foundation researchers Dankrad Feist and protocol support staff Sophia Gold have proposed solutions aimed at addressing the scalability issues of Ethereum's base layer, specifically Ethereum Improvement Proposals 9678 and 9698.
These two proposals aim to increase gas limits, which should theoretically increase Ethereum's transaction throughput by the same margin.
Related: Ethereum Fusaka hard fork scheduled for the second half of 2025.
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