After a long period of market downturn and internal accumulation, the Ethereum Foundation finally welcomed a far-reaching reshaping in 2025.
On February 25, 2025, Aya Miyaguchi officially took office as the chair of the Ethereum Foundation; on March 17, Hsiao-Wei Wang and Tomasz Stańczak took on the role of joint executive directors. On April 28, the foundation released three heavyweight articles on its official website, systematically elaborating on the new management structure, Ethereum's future vision, and key work directions for the coming year. The Ethereum Foundation is embarking on a new journey with a refreshed posture.
New leadership team: Dual Executive Directors + New Board of Directors
The foundation's latest structure clearly divides into two systems: management (executive and operational) and the board (supervision and strategy).
Core management team:
Hsiao-Wei Wang: Co-executive director, with a technical background, deeply engaged in protocol development.
Tomasz K. Stańczak: Co-executive director, balancing strategy and execution, and also involved in Nethermind and other ecological construction.
Bastian Aue: Responsible for organizational strategy, recruitment, and training.
Josh Stark: Focused on project execution, communication, and ecosystem coordination.
Board members:
Vitalik Buterin: Founder, providing ongoing technical and conceptual guidance.
Aya Miyaguchi: Chair, coordinating external relations and overall vision.
Patrick Storchenegger: Representative for legal and compliance matters in Switzerland.
Hsiao-Wei Wang: Co-executive director and board member, serving as a communication bridge.
This new governance structure balances execution power and foresight while strengthening the linkage between the board and management, laying the foundation for Ethereum's development into the next decade.
New vision: Protect the 'infinite garden' rather than monopolize dominance
The new vision proposed by Aya Miyaguchi and Vitalik Buterin compares Ethereum to an **"infinite garden"**:
This is a vibrant, decentralized, and diverse ecosystem.
Ethereum is not an empire dominated by a single entity, but a community nurtured by countless builders, developers, and community members.
The role of the foundation has been redefined as:
Fill ecological gaps: intervene at critical moments, but never monopolize.
Consciously withdraw: Allow more new organizations to grow independently, achieving true decentralization.
Empower others: Promote the sustainable development of the entire ecosystem through funding, training, standard setting, and other means.
In short, the future mission of the Ethereum Foundation is to do those "things that others cannot do today" and pave the way for "things that others will be able to do tomorrow."
Four core goals for the coming year
Goal One: Expand the global practical user base of Ethereum
Focus on truly "meaningful" use cases, such as:
DeFi inclusive finance: Allow those without bank accounts to save and invest.
Decentralized social media: Resist platform censorship and data deprivation.
Decentralized artificial intelligence: Develop verifiable and secure AI systems on Ethereum.
Enterprise-grade Ethereum: Empower traditional industries such as finance and supply chains.
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Goal Two: Strengthen Ethereum's technical and social resilience
Promote client diversity.
Strengthen the interoperability and anti-censorship capabilities of the L2 ecosystem.
Support geographic decentralization to avoid excessive concentration of a single team or region.
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Goal Three: Synchronize mainnet and L2 expansion
Mainnet (L1): Enhance the scalability and security of the underlying protocol (e.g., Blob expansion technology).
L2: Accelerate the development of Rollup and application chains, improving cross-chain UX experience.
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Goal Four: Incentivize global community participation
Strengthen Devcon and local community building.
Support developers and entrepreneurial projects in underdeveloped regions through scholarships, funding, and other means.
Promote experiments with new governance mechanisms, such as MACI and retrospective public goods funding.
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Summary: A genuine transformation of "Ethereum Foundation 2.0"
This series of changes indicates that the Ethereum Foundation is moving from behind the scenes to the forefront, transforming from a "behind-the-scenes funder" to an "ecosystem guardian + system coordinator."
A more efficient organizational structure, a clearer future blueprint, and a stronger commitment to values herald a more mature, open, and long-lasting Ethereum.
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