Ethereum Foundation cut 54 roles, reshape protocol and access teams

Ethereum Foundation (EF) tok say dem don finish di months-long reorganization under dem Mandate and Treasury Management Policy. Dem go cut 54 roles (about 20%) and dem go pay severance (di higher one between 1 month per year worked or local minimum), plus transition help across di Ethereum ecosystem and small expense grant. Operationally, EF don reorganize into five work clusters—Protocol, Access, User, Community, and Institutional—plus operations and management/support. Di Protocol Layer go focus on scaling and hardening Ethereum while e still preserve self-sovereignty (anti-censorship/capture resistance), make safer fork shipping, reduce complexity and trusted dependencies, mitigate toxic MEV, and turn long-horizon research (post-quantum security, zkEVM, L1 privacy) into protocol changes. Di Access Layer dey target practical self-sovereignty for reading, transacting, proving, delegating, and exiting, including verifiable and censorship-resistant paths and “zero option” alternatives when intermediaries dey involved. User/Community/Institutional layers go prioritize user needs and expand institutional integration, dem emphasize CROPS properties like fair execution, data portability, privacy, authenticity proofs, and misbehavior detection. For ETH traders, dis one look like organizational focus shift not immediate protocol upgrade. Still, di Ethereum Foundation restructure fit affect research-to-spec execution speed and tooling/integration timelines for di coming quarters.