# Ethereum Foundation restructures leadership to support ecosystem growth

Source: https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1880635379771904423
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Ethereum-Foundation-restructures-leadership-to-support-ecosystem-growth?index=0x678bc8cc43162d4f770b5d2cf77ffbf8726cc0265b3a37f8885853f8e3ced50cbdcaa53a
Submitted by tim on 2025-01-18 UTC, 7 upvotes, 0 comments

## Summary

The Ethereum Foundation (EF) is restructuring its leadership, a process that has been ongoing for close to a year, with some changes already made public and others still in progress. The stated goals are to raise technical expertise within EF leadership, improve two-way communication with users, app developers, wallets and L2s, bring in fresh talent, and better support app builders in protecting privacy, open source and censorship resistance. EF explicitly rules out an ideological pivot, aggressive lobbying of regulators and politicians, becoming a vehicle for vested interests, or becoming a highly centralized organization. EF says people seeking a different vision are welcome to start their own organizations.

## Article

We are indeed currently in the process of large changes to EF leadership structure, which has been ongoing for close to a year. Some of this has already been executed on and made public, and some is still in progress.

What we're trying to achieve is primarily the following goals:

* Improve level of technical expertise within EF leadership
* Improve two-way communications and ties between EF leadership and the ecosystem actors, old and new, that it is our role to support: users (individual and institutional), app devs, wallets, L2s
* Bring in fresh talent, improve execution ability and speed
* Become more actively supportive of app builders, and make sure important values and inalienable rights (esp privacy, open source, censorship resistance) are a reality for users including at the app layer
* Continue to increase our use of decentralized and privacy tech and the Ethereum chain, including for payments and treasury management

Explicit *non-goals* are:

* Execute some kind of ideological / vibez pivot from feminized wef soyboy mentality to bronze age mindset
* Start aggressively lobbying regulators and powerful political figures (esp in USA, but really anywhere, especially large powerful countries), and risking compromising Ethereum's position as a global neutral platform
* Become an arena for vested interests
* Become a highly centralized org, or even more of a "main character" within Ethereum

These things aren't what EF does and this isn't going to change. People seeking a different vision are welcome to start their own orgs.