Ethereum Foundation Executive Director: Vitalik's proposal aims to open dialogue, and the community review has the right to veto.

Odaily News The executive director of the Ethereum Foundation, Tomasz K. Stańczak, published an article on platform X stating that with the recent changes in the leadership of the Ethereum Foundation, our goal is to give Vitalik more time for research and exploration, rather than daily coordination or crisis response. Every time Vitalik shares insights or conveys direction, it accelerates significant long-term breakthroughs. His recent article on RISC-V and zkVM has advanced promising development pathways, while his article on privacy has helped the community re-integrate around the core values of the Ethereum Foundation. I want to make it clear that Vitalik's proposals are always influential, but they aim to open dialogue and encourage progress in tricky research areas. Community reviews may lead to significant modifications of proposals or even their rejection. We hope that other researchers will have the same freedom to bravely pose challenges and offer alternatives, such as @drakefjustin and @dankrad. Ethereum researchers often ask readers to recognize the exploratory nature of their posts and proposals. Focus remains crucial. Internally at the EF, we will redirect most of our research efforts towards short-term goals, striving to address user experience and scalability challenges in the next two protocol upgrades. We are concentrating on L1 scaling, L2 scaling support, and significant UX improvements in the Pectra, Fusaka, and Glamsterdam upgrades (including interoperability). Meanwhile, we are exploring how to complete projects that are currently expected to take three to five years ahead of schedule. The papers from our top researchers help some projects deliver within one or two years through initiatives such as next-generation execution and consensus layers.