Hello! That is Hsiao-Wei and Tomasz co-writing this weblog put up. We have now been in our new Co-Govt Director roles for nearly a month. The honeymoon is over, it is time to get transferring.
A Second of Transition and Alternative
Ethereum has all the time been a journey: a continuously evolving ecosystem powered by individuals who consider in constructing a extra open and decentralized world. Whereas the Ethereum Basis (EF) could also be a decade outdated, it stays keen to reinvent itself.
This yr, EF embraced a brand new management mannequin with twin Govt Administrators. This design brings numerous and complementary views, enhancing our potential to fulfill advanced challenges. We’re excited to embrace the alternatives and challenges forward, guided by a deep dedication to Ethereum’s core values and a imaginative and prescient grounded in stewardship, coordination, and long-term pondering.
Importantly, EF will not be a two-headed carriage pulling in several instructions. Our relationship is constructed on mutual respect, belief, and shared values. We collaborate intently, problem one another constructively, and in the end transfer ahead as a united workforce with shared objectives.
Our Ideas and Focus Areas
Wanting forward, we shall be working with two pillars:
Guiding Ideas (our core values) and Aims (our pursuit of affect and resilience). Technical excellence underpins all that we do and it’s the inspiration that allows us to ship on our mission.
Our job as Govt Administrators is to implement EF’s vision in a continuously altering world. Our function contains strategic planning, ecosystem stewardship, workforce management, and operational oversight. All in assist of Ethereum’s long-term success.
Values we champion:
- Censorship Resistance: Making certain that Ethereum stays an open community the place anybody, wherever, can transact and construct with out obstacles or exterior management.
- Open Supply Innovation: Fostering collaboration, transparency, and community-driven growth by way of overtly shared data and instruments.
- Privateness Safety: Safeguarding particular person freedom and autonomy in a digital world by enabling non-public interactions with out sacrificing safety.
- Safety: Sustaining belief, robustness, and resilience throughout the Ethereum ecosystem by prioritizing safe design and steady analysis.
These values are the inspiration that information our technical selections, our assist for the ecosystem, and our long-term imaginative and prescient for Ethereum as a public good.
Whereas remembering these values, we’ve set main instructions for the following 12 months:
- Scaling Ethereum mainnet
- Scaling blobs
- Enhancing UX, together with L2 interop + utility layer
Collectively, which means enhancing mainnet and L2s interoperability and coodination, UX, DevEx, giving functions and L2s extra presence and a spotlight at Devcon, amplifying their messages through communication channels.
Past this, we perceive that we have to speed up journeys of builders, founders, establishments by way of the pathways in the direction of constructing on Ethereum and adopting Ethereum. Ethereum Basis has data and leaders who can mentor, lead, appeal to, and onboard expertise.
Tomasz’s Notice
Ethereum begins the following chapter. The values stay unchanged: open supply, censorship resistance, privateness, and safety. The Ethereum Basis adjustments – into a corporation that may talk increasingly more overtly, a corporation that shall be keen to enter tough dialogues directly.
We are going to give attention to velocity of execution, accountability, clear objectives, targets, and metrics to trace. We shall be targeted on the success of the Ethereum mainnet protocol. Ethereum mainnet will stay a world, impartial community, a protocol trusted to be trustless. We are going to give attention to the success of Ethereum mainnet and all the ecosystem – L2s that deliver mass adoption and quite a few advantages to the customers, mainnet that stands as each a strong rock and a nimble community behind all of the transactions and coordination mechanisms. We’re excited concerning the journey – a journey by way of one of the vital inspiring technological and societal shifts we are going to ever expertise, a journey that we’ll embark on collectively – visionaries and down-to-earth builders.
Forward of us lies one yr of scaling – scaling Ethereum mainnet (L1), supporting the success of L2 chains by offering them with the perfect structure to scale, to safe their networks, and to deliver confidence to their customers. Forward of us is a give attention to making all the ecosystem of chains really feel like one by delivering the perfect UX, design, and interoperability, whereas reaching scaling by way of engineering excellence and cutting-edge analysis.
Hsiao-Wei’s Notice
Within the subsequent few months, my precedence shall be on strengthening the EF’s operations to assist the ecosystem’s progress. An adaptable and succesful basis helps us higher serve Ethereum’s long-term mission.
As we transfer with sharper focus, one in every of our objectives is to higher assist Ethereum’s utility layer. We are going to assist builders and customers by enhancing the developer and person expertise, clarifying requirements, strengthening ecosystems, and smoothing the journey from concepts to reside functions.
We’re working to enhance how we plan, prioritize, and coordinate throughout groups inside EF and throughout the broader ecosystem, holding our efforts aligned with group wants and Ethereum’s cypherpunk spirit. Strengthening EF is just one a part of the transition. The actual momentum comes from the power and creativity of the worldwide Ethereum ecosystem.
A Future Constructed Collectively
Ethereum will not be a monolith. It’s a residing, respiratory community of communities, builders, researchers, artists, educators, and dreamers. It’s international, numerous, and proudly decentralized. We’re frequently impressed by the creativity and resilience of the ecosystem. EF will proceed to point out up the place we’re most wanted, but in addition make house when the ecosystem prospers by itself. This can be a community-led future.
The highway forward is filled with potentialities. Ethereum has already reworked what’s attainable in know-how, finance, governance, and past. To everybody constructing, educating, researching, experimenting, and imagining new futures: thanks. Collectively, we’re constructing one thing greater than anyone workforce, venture, or era. We’re honored to stroll this path with you, and we’re excited for all that’s forward.