Butling, founder of Ethereum, stays away from the frontline

The Ethereum Foundation initiated a leadership readjustment aimed at lifting Vitalik Buterin out of routine coordination and crisis classification, allowing the network’s co-founders to devote almost his time to in-depth circular research. The shift was revealed in an article on X by Tomasz K. Stańczak, who was recently appointed co-executive director of the foundation, which outlines the positive acceleration of the Ethereum technology roadmap.

Ethereum Foundation reshapes leadership

“Our discussion of the first level expansion roadmap has been extensive, and the feedback so far shows that the community appreciates our ambitions,” Stankak wrote. “Turning this ambition into a reality now depends on the focus of the core development team and researchers.” He added that “after recent changes in leadership at the Ethereum Foundation, our goal is to free up Vitalik’s time to research and explore time rather than day-in-day coordination or crisis response.”

Stańczak stressed that Buterin’s voice will “always bear weight”, but his advice is to “start the conversation and encourage progress in difficult areas of research”, but requires rigorous community review. “Every time Vitalik shares insights or conveys directions, he accelerates long-term breakthroughs,” he noted. He cites Buterin’s recent paper on RISC-V-V-based virtual machines and zero-knowledge execution environments, as well as his zero-writing on Privach, and what Stańczak calls “around the core of Enlignign of Ericigning of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of Eric of

Under Stańczak’s management, the Foundation focused its recent research firepower on Layer 1 expansion, Layer 2 support and tricky user experience issues (including interoperability), with the upcoming Pectra, Fusaka and Glamsterdam protocol upgrades. “In EF, we will turn most of our research toward near-term goals, aiming to address the user experience and amplify challenges in the next two protocol upgrades,” he wrote. Meanwhile, the team is “exploring how to propose a project that looks like three to five years now” with the next generation of execution and consensus layers aimed at compressing it into a one to two-year horizon.

Buterin’s most compelling idea lately – rebuilding the Ethereum virtual machine with RISC-V architecture – masked the latitude he would like now. The proposal envisions rebuilding the platform’s execution layer on an open software instruction set, which he believes is a “significant overhaul” in transaction processing and smart contract execution, which may achieve a huge improvement in efficiency, possibly up to 100%. Although still in its early stages and influenced by the foundation’s culture of rigorous scrutiny, the program remains aligned with Ethereum’s focus on the original Layer 1 throughput, even as the Layer 2 ecosystem matures in parallel.

Leader recalibration is also designed to cheer up other senior researchers. Stańczak picked out Justin Drake and Dankrad Feist, urging the community to grant them the same latitude pudding (Buterin) likes to post exploratory ideas that can later be refined or rejected by public review. “Ethereum researchers often ask readers to recognize the exploratory nature of their posts and suggestions,” he wrote, emphasizing the Foundation’s belief that high-risk inquiries are the premise of breakthroughs.

At press time, ETH traded at $1,577.

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