#Ethereum Foundation Adjusts Leadership#

The Ethereum Foundation (EF) is undergoing significant leadership changes, a process that has been ongoing for nearly a year. These changes stem from widespread community criticism of the EF leadership, with Vitalik Buterin recently publishing a detailed explanation of this transformation. The main objectives include enhancing the leadership's technical expertise, improving two-way communication with stakeholders in the ecosystem (including users, application developers, wallets, and L2s), increasing execution and speed, attracting new talent, actively supporting application developers, and ensuring that core values such as privacy, open source, and censorship resistance are implemented in the application layer. Vitalik also emphasized that the EF will not pursue ideological shifts, engage in excessive lobbying of regulatory bodies or political figures, or transform into an arena for vested interests.Community criticism of the EF leadership has mainly focused on the following areas: lack of technical expertise within the leadership, insufficient communication with ecosystem participants, low execution, and favoritism towards vested interest groups. Vitalik's statement indicates that the EF is working to address these issues and is committed to becoming a more transparent, efficient, and technology-driven organization.It is noteworthy that Vitalik emphasized that the EF will not undergo ideological changes nor engage in excessive lobbying of regulatory bodies. This suggests that the EF will continue to uphold the principles of decentralization and neutrality, focusing on technological development.This leadership transition is a crucial milestone in the EF's evolution, shaping its future direction. The community anticipates that the EF, under new leadership, will overcome past shortcomings and better serve the Ethereum ecosystem.