Ethereum Foundation restructures R&D Division, plant ‘reconsider’ on design and development

Less than a month after the Pectra upgrade, the Ethereum Foundation believes that the second largest crypto in the world, both as a technology and as an ecosystem, is approaching large breakthroughs with higher bets for a wider audience.

However, those interests can be at risk if the people who steer it are deep -rooted in what it calls a messy process: shipping protocol.

“We must reconsider our current approach for designing, developing and bones of the protocol”, the foundation written On Monday, the restructuring of its protocol research and development teams announced.

The move is set to consolidate development efforts under a new “protocol” division, aimed at three immediate goals. The foundation praises the move as a way to “respond proactively” to demand demands in “difficult to articulate and fulfill it even more difficult”.

“Ethereum has all the lion’s share of the internet capital markets, Onchain communities, and secures $ 200 billion plus value,” said Binji Pande, growth agents at Ethereum Layer 2 Scaling Solution optimism, said Decodeer. “Protocol now gives it the clarity and implementation it deserves by scaling what works, improve UX and keep Ethereum useful for the world.”

The revision divides teams into three initiatives: the scaling of the most important blockchain (layer 1), the scaling of blobs for data storage and improving the user experience.

Each initiative is assigned leadership: Tim Beiko and Ansgar Dietrichs are responsible for L1 ScalesAlex Stokes and Francesco d’Amato will supervise Blob -scale distributionWhile Barnabé Monnot and Josh Rudolf have the task of improving user experience.

But not everyone remains and makes the cut for the protocol. Some members “will not continue with the Ethereum Foundation,” said it, encouraging ecosystem projects to recruit talent.

Decrypt reached to the Ethereum Foundation to learn more.

Strategic roles

The three teams are supported by Dankrad Feist, a prominent researcher and cryptographer who is known for “Danksharding”, a blockchain optimization process named after him. Feist will work as a strategic adviser for all tracks.

Last year Feist was involved in one Conflict of control controversionWhen, in addition to colleague core developer Justin Drake, he confirmed that they received tokens for their advisory relationship with Owlayer, a repeated protocol for Ethereum.

“It is clear that trusting on culture and individual judgment has not been sufficient, and we have worked on a formal policy to tackle this,” Aya Miyaguchi, the foundation former Executive director, said at the time.

Nevertheless, the efforts of the Ethereum Foundation to restructure with protocol are the aim of bridging an observed gap between research and actual implementation.

Previous upgrades, such as Pectra, were confronted with various obstacles: Testnet -Disruptions Earlier this year The rollout delayed by weeks as Developers scrambled To patch bugs.

Now, through the protocol, the foundation tries to show that ‘the world is ready for the world computer’.

Edited by Sebastian Sinclair