Announcing Protocol Ethereum Foundation
AI summary of the linked articleEthereum Foundation's Protocol Research & Development group is restructuring and renaming itself "Protocol," reorienting around three strategic goals: scaling the L1, scaling the blobs, and improving UX. The announcement says the changes aim to make the group more responsive and effective, and that some PR&D members will not continue with the Ethereum Foundation. Each goal now has named leads: Tim Beiko and Ansgar Dietrichs for scaling L1, Alex Stokes and Francesco D'Amato for scaling L2, and Barnabé Monnot and Josh Rudolf for improving UX. Dankrad Feist will serve as strategic advisor across all tracks, and the group is recruiting a UX Lead and a Performance Engineering Lead. |
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3 comments mishaSubmitter Our focus: scale L1, scale blobs, and improve UX, without compromising on Ethereum's core values. The world is ready for the world computer. It's on us to deliver it. @timbeiko.eth  Isn‘t this one of the most important infos in there This also means some members of PR&D won’t be continuing with the Ethereum Foundation. We hope these individuals continue on in the Ethereum ecosystem and encourage others building out their teams to seek them out. OK here is the AI summary of the data Method: 1. I took Josh Stark's org chart posted on May 14: https://x.com/0xstark/status/1922642395654394082 2. I gave it to Claude to extract the text 3. I then copied the new org from https://protocol.ethereum.foundation/teams into Claude and asked it to show me the difference Here is what Claude came back with: 1. Teams That Split: Consensus R&D → Split into: - Protocol::Architecture (Dankrad, Barnabé, Francesco, Ansgar, Justin) - Protocol::Consensus (Roberto, Luca, Yann[new]) - Protocol::Snarkification (Alexander, Carl) - Protocol::P2P Networking (Pop + existing P2P team) 2. Teams That Were Renamed/Reorganized: - ARC → Protocol::zkEVM - ResearchOps → Protocol::Coordination - Protocol Support → Protocol::& Application Support 3. Teams That Were Disbanded: - Javascript (members scattered or left) - Ipsilon (most members left, possibly Radek to zkEVM) - Snake Charmers (members moved to Prototyping, STEEL, and App Support) 4. New Teams Created: - Protocol::Architecture (from Consensus R&D split) - Protocol::Coordination (evolution of ResearchOps) - Protocol::Snarkification (new specialized focus) - Protocol::Prototyping (new experimental team) 5. Teams That Remained Stable: - Account Abstraction - Cryptography - RIG - Security - Stateless Consensus - EthPandaOps - Geth - STEEL 6. Summary - Total people in old structure: ~85 people - Total people in new structure: ~75 people - Net reduction: ~10 people - People who moved teams: ~25 people - People who left: ~15 people - New people added: ~5 people - Teams disbanded: 3 (Javascript, Ipsilon, Snake Charmers) - New teams created: 4 (Architecture, Coordination, Snarkification, Prototyping) |
