Ethereum Foundation: Humanity’s Shared World Computer
As society evolves, so do its values and principles, but is that desirable for technology that seeks to build the most reliable, trustless and censorship resistant global settlement layer? Ever since the rise in popularity of Solana with its inflow of retail capital in a memecoin gold rush, Ethereum became even more criticized for sticking true to its core values despite the completely divergent demands of market participants. Moreover, the rollup centric scaling roadmap seemed to further silo attention and cause liquidity fragmentation, driving away value from Ethereum mainnet. As institutional demand is expected to grow with the introduction of staking ETFs, a new executive leadership took charge of Ethereum foundation to help steer the protocol’s narrative at the intersection between community demands and Ethereum’s ethos.
Topics:
- Hsiao-Wei’s & Tomasz’ backgrounds
- How they became co-executive directors of Ethereum Foundation
- Ethereum Foundation’s role moving forward
- Decision making in Ethereum Foundation
- Shaping Ethereum’s narrative
- The layer 2 landscape
- Scaling Ethereum as the global settlement layer
- Sharding
- Rollup scalability & their trade-offs
- What values drive adoption
- L2 interoperability
- Future goals