Ethereum Foundation slashes 20% of its workforce as it completes an 18-month overhaul into a new five-cluster operating structure
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Promote with Leviathan News54 fewer EF staff lands one day after Ethlabs spun up with Joe Lubin plus the Bitmine/SharpLink ETH DAT crowd, so Ethereum’s institutional push is now split between EF’s Institutional Layer and external cap-table missionaries. That tension matters because Protocol/Access are being chartered around CROPS, zero-option paths, L1 privacy, zkEVM, post-quantum security, and MEV hardening, while institutions usually optimize for compliant intermediated rails. If EF can keep “zero option” enforceable, this is modularization; if not, it’s the same old computer-versus-casino fight with cleaner org charts.
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