#Ethereum Foundation Reform#

The Ethereum Foundation (EF) recently announced major reforms in response to widespread criticism from the community. The reforms aim to enhance leadership’s technical expertise, improve two-way communication with ecosystem stakeholders (including users, application developers, wallets, and L2s), strengthen execution and speed, attract new talent, actively support application developers, and ensure that core values like privacy, open-source, and censorship resistance are implemented in the application layer. Specific reform measures include: enhancing leadership’s technical expertise, attracting fresh talent, improving communication with ecosystem stakeholders, more actively supporting application developers, and continuing to increase investment in decentralized and privacy technologies as well as Ethereum chain usage. Vitalik Buterin emphasized that the EF will not pursue an ideological shift, will not engage in excessive lobbying of regulators or politicians, and will never transform itself into an arena for interest groups.The backdrop to these reforms is the widespread criticism the EF has received in recent years, with accusations that its leadership lacks technical expertise, has inadequate communication with the ecosystem, suffers from poor execution, and is overly focused on its own interests. The community has called for reforms to better serve the Ethereum ecosystem. The significance of these reforms lies in the fact that they demonstrate that the EF is actively listening to the community and committed to addressing its concerns. The success of the reforms will directly impact the future development of Ethereum.