{"id":127601,"date":"2025-04-21T10:15:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T10:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=127601"},"modified":"2025-04-21T10:15:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T10:15:50","slug":"ethereum-foundation-shifts-focus-to-user-experience-layer-1-scaling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=127601","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum Foundation shifts focus to user experience, layer-1 scaling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsThe Ethereum Foundation, the nonprofit organization developing the Ethereum ecosystem, is shifting its focus to user experience and layer-1 scaling challenges following its March leadership reshuffle.\u00a0<br \/>\nOn April 21, the Ethereum Foundation co-executive director Tomasz Sta\u0144czak shared an X post detailing how the organization has changed since its change in leadership structure.<br \/>\nSta\u0144czak said the change aims to give Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin more time for research and exploration rather than dealing with day-to-day tasks and crisis management.<br \/>\n\u201cEach time Vitalik shares insights or communicates a direction, he accelerates major long\u2011term breakthroughs,\u201d he wrote.<br \/>\nSta\u0144czak added that Buterin\u2019s recent posts had advanced promising avenues and helped realign the community around the organization\u2019s core values.\u00a0<br \/>\nVitalik Buterin tackles Ethereum privacy and speed<br \/>\nOn March 1, the Ethereum Foundation announced that its core researcher Hsiao-Wei Wang and\u00a0Sta\u0144czak, the CEO of Nethermind, would become the co-directors of the organization from March 17.\u00a0<br \/>\nSince the changes in the organization\u2019s leadership structure, Buterin has stepped back from daily operations. He has since published proposals addressing the Ethereum network\u2019s privacy and performance limitations.<br \/>\nOn April 11, the Ethereum co-founder unveiled a privacy roadmap for the network.\u00a0In the post, Buterin proposed having features that anonymize user transactions. Buterin said the features should be \u201cideally turned on by default.\u201d\u00a0<br \/>\nBesides the privacy of transactions, Buterin also shared a post addressing Ethereum\u2019s speed and efficiency. On April 20, Buterin proposed a change in the Ethereum Virtual Machine\u2019s (EVM) contract language to improve the efficiency and speed of the blockchain\u2019s execution layer.\u00a0<br \/>\nSta\u0144czak said that while Buterin\u2019s proposals will \u201calways carry weight,\u201d they are supposed to start conversations and encourage progress in different research areas. The executive said the community can either refine or reject the ideas.\u00a0<br \/>\nRelated: Debate as Solana briefly flips Ethereum in staking market cap<br \/>\nFoundation targets near-term protocol upgrades<br \/>\nThe Ethereum Foundation will shift much of its research to \u201cnear-term\u201d goals, including addressing user experience and scaling challenges in upcoming protocol upgrades, Sta\u0144czak said.<br \/>\nSta\u0144czak added that the foundation will concentrate on layer-1 scaling, support for layer-2 scaling, and user experience improvements such as interoperability in the Pectra, Fusaka and Glamsterdam upgrades.\u00a0<br \/>\nWhile the focus shifted to near-term results, the executive said the team is also looking into ways to bring in more long-term projects.<br \/>\n\u201cPosts from our top researchers help some of them to ship within one or two years through initiatives such as next\u2011generation execution and consensus layers,\u201d Sta\u0144czak said.\u00a0Cointelegraph contacted the Ethereum Foundation for comment but did not receive a response by publication.<br \/>\nMagazine: Memecoin degeneracy is funding groundbreaking anti-aging research<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/ethereum-foundation-user-experience-layer-1-scaling-leadership-shift?utm_source=rss_feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsThe Ethereum Foundation, the nonprofit organization developing the Ethereum ecosystem, is shifting its focus to user experience and layer-1 scaling challenges following its March leadership reshuffle.\u00a0 On April&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127601"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}