Another member of the Ethereum Foundation has left.
Josh Stark announced his departure from EF, without disclosing his future plans. Stark is a Core Contributor (Communications/Strategy). Essentially, he is the spokesperson, interpreting the direction of EF and serving as the face for the community.
Previously, Trent Van Epps (Ecosystem Support Lead) and Tomasz Stanczak (Co-Executive Director) also left EF. The most significant possibility is internal disagreements surrounding the drama of Aya Miyaguchi.
EF is at odds because it wants to improve blobs but still emphasizes a cypherpunk stance. The rest want to accelerate Institutional adoption - ETF, tokenization, TradFi (asset layer). When there is no longer a shared development direction, it is natural for some to leave.
Vitalik's direction for ETH in the strawmap 2026 aims to blur the boundaries between L1 and L2, scale on L1, and shift from rollup-centric to data-centric (zkEVM + data bandwidth).
There has been no reason to believe that ETH will outperform BTC in the upcoming season (as of now). Charts like ETH/BTC are about to break; the community has been sharing this for the past 3 years. $ETH
Josh Stark announced his departure from EF, without disclosing his future plans. Stark is a Core Contributor (Communications/Strategy). Essentially, he is the spokesperson, interpreting the direction of EF and serving as the face for the community.
Previously, Trent Van Epps (Ecosystem Support Lead) and Tomasz Stanczak (Co-Executive Director) also left EF. The most significant possibility is internal disagreements surrounding the drama of Aya Miyaguchi.
EF is at odds because it wants to improve blobs but still emphasizes a cypherpunk stance. The rest want to accelerate Institutional adoption - ETF, tokenization, TradFi (asset layer). When there is no longer a shared development direction, it is natural for some to leave.
Vitalik's direction for ETH in the strawmap 2026 aims to blur the boundaries between L1 and L2, scale on L1, and shift from rollup-centric to data-centric (zkEVM + data bandwidth).
There has been no reason to believe that ETH will outperform BTC in the upcoming season (as of now). Charts like ETH/BTC are about to break; the community has been sharing this for the past 3 years. $ETH