The Ethereum Foundation is losing people faster than it can define what it wants to be. Co-executive director Tomasz Stańczak has resigned after roughly 11 months on the job, and he’s not the only one heading for the exit.
Protocol coordinators Tim Beiko and Barnabé Monnot have also stepped back from their roles amid what the foundation describes as an internal restructuring.
A foundation in flux
The departures coincide with the EF’s implementation of what it calls a “Lean Ethereum” strategy, a philosophical pivot that reframes the foundation as a steward of the network rather than its owner.
To operationalize that vision, the foundation laid off 19 employees. The stated goal was to cut bureaucracy and refocus on core tasks. Stańczak’s departure came after this major staff reduction.
