Ethereum Foundation Cuts 54 Roles in Major Reorganization

Ethereum Foundation concludes reorganization, cutting 54 roles—20% of staff. New structure has five clusters: protocol, access, user, community, and institutional layers, plus operations and management. Protocol layer prioritizes censorship resistance, post-quantum security, zkEVM, L1 privacy. Access layer ensures intermediary-free paths via “zero option” principle. Laid-off staff supported in contributing outside EF.