The Ethereum Foundation adjusts its strategic direction to focus on short-term expansion goals

Tomasz K. Stańczak, the incoming co-executive director of the Ethereum Foundation, announced a positive justification strategy to shift more research toward near-term goals. The change aims to free up Vitalik Buterin to focus more on research rather than day-to-day coordination. The Foundation will prioritize the development of Layer 1 scaling, support for Layer 2 scaling, and improved user experience, which will be implemented in the three protocol upgrades of Pectra, Fusaka, and Glamsterdam. At the same time, the Foundation is also exploring how to accelerate the current project, which is expected to take 3-5 years, to achieve some functionality through plans such as the next-generation execution layer and the consensus layer within 1-2 years.