A long-time Ethereum investor and community figure has pushed back against growing alarm over the string of departures from the Ethereum Foundation (EF), arguing that the organization\u2019s commitment to the network is as firm as ever.<\/p>\n
Ryan Berckmans, who has worked full-time in the Ethereum space for eight years, offered one of the more detailed community-level defenses of the EF\u2019s current direction since the exits started mounting this year.<\/p>\n
According to Berckmans, people are misreading the situation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe EF departures are not because the people departing feel differently about Ethereum and our trajectory vs. the people staying at EF or vs. community folks like me,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n
What actually drove them, in his view<\/a>, was a mix of internal disagreements over sub-strategies rather than any loss of faith in Ethereum itself, plus a deliberate generational shift.<\/p>\n \u201cSome folks disagreed. Some tiny number were asked to leave for Reasons. Some few others left immediately due to Reasonable Net Feelings. Some more are leaving because the Wheel is Turning,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n Further, Berckmans added that new, younger contributors are ready to step into leadership across teams and departments.\u00a0He also addressed a persistent piece of community frustration, that the EF and Vitalik Buterin do not care about ETH\u2019s price, calling it a misconception.<\/p>\n According to him, they care deeply, but across a much longer time horizon than most community members track.<\/p>\n \u201cThey want to know, \u2018How will Ethereum remain dominant after quantum computers?\u2019 and, \u2018How will Ethereum be the world\u2019s economic hub for trillions in assets and thousands of L2s across a hundred countries?’\u201d<\/p>\n His conclusion was that these are questions that can only get asked if you believe the outcome is achievable, and the EF\u2019s programs in response to them are \u201cgigabullish.\u201d<\/p>\n The wave of exits has included Carl Beek, Julian Ma, Barnab\u00e9 Monnot, Tim Beiko, Trent Van Epps, Josh Stark, and former co-Executive Director Tomasz Sta\u0144czak.<\/p>\n Sta\u0144czak\u2019s departure, in particular, drew quite a lot of attention, considering that it came just 11 months after he\u2019d taken the role.\u00a0In addition, the exits have been concentrated, with four of the more prominent ones landing within roughly four weeks of each other in April and May.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, a detailed analysis by crypto researcher Nick Sawinyh pointed<\/a> to unconfirmed claims circulating online that staff were asked to formally align with the Foundation\u2019s new mandate.\u00a0However, the EF has not publicly confirmed those claims, and none of the departing contributors cited the mandate as their reason for leaving.<\/p>\n People are also focusing on the coming Glamsterdam upgrade<\/a> to Ethereum that is still under test. The protocol update includes changes tied to scaling and validator infrastructure, although some anticipated features, including FOCIL and native account abstraction, have already been delayed to a later upgrade cycle.<\/p>\n Despite this, many Ethereum backers believe that the entire ecosystem can now take leadership changes in stride without posing a risk to the network as a whole.\u00a0One of them, author William Mougayar, described<\/a> the Foundation\u2019s shrinking role as a deliberate attempt to remove Ethereum\u2019s remaining central point of control rather than a sign of institutional decline.<\/p>\n The post ETH Insider Explains Wave of 2026 Ethereum Foundation Departures<\/a> appeared first on CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A long-time Ethereum investor and community figure has pushed back against growing alarm over the string of departures from the Ethereum Foundation (EF), arguing that the organization\u2019s commitment to the network is as firm as ever. Ryan Berckmans, who has worked full-time in the Ethereum space for eight years, offered one of the more detailed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Four Prominent Contributors Left in Just Four Weeks<\/h2>\n