The Ethereum Foundation recently released a blog post written by Hsiao-Wei Wang and Tomasz Stańczak.
Hiring both executives is an EF attempt to change the way things go by adopting a new leadership model. They hope that new brand leadership will introduce diverse and complementary perspectives and enhance their ability to address complex challenges.
“We are thrilled to embrace the opportunities and challenges we’re headed by our deep commitment to Ethereum’s core values and a vision based on stewardship, coordination and long-term thinking,” they write.
Having two heads may seem counterproductive, but the co-executive supervisor says that the EF cannot be pulled in two different directions. Especially because their relationships are built on mutual respect, trust and shared values.
Hsiao-Wei and Tomasz share plans for the next 12 months
Both executives say their tenure is characterized by technical excellence and guided by two pillars: guide principles (core values) and objectives (pursuit of impact and resilience).
Hsiao-Wei and Tomasz said they plan to focus the foundation’s efforts on three areas the following year without falling out of EF’s core values. These include scaling Ethereum MainNet, scaling blobs, and improving UX.
It plans to focus quite a lot of resources on improving mainnet and L2 interoperability and tuning, UX and Devex while shining the DEVCON application and L2S spotlight.
There are also plans to accelerate the journey of developers, founders and institutions through the path to building Ethereum and adopting networks.
The Ethereum Foundation has changed under new dual leadership
Before Hsiao-Wei Wang and Tomasz Stańczak were appointed to the current role, many considered the EF a sunken ship.
Aya Miyaguchi, the sole former executive director, became president of the foundation. She sparked a considerable amount of criticism, accusing many of them of being inefficient and lacking technical focus.
While she was executive director, EF was constantly accused of excessive spending, not investing resources, and not focusing on Ethereum’s growth. It’s been almost a month since Hsiao-Wei and Tomasz took over, but things seem to be looking up.
In their joint blog post, Tomasz has committed to transforming EF into an organization that is more openly communicating and willing to participate in difficult dialogues without delay.
He’s already started it. Just a few days ago, on April 21st, he shared a lengthy tweet detailing the steps he had taken to move things forward.
This post was warmly welcomed and I saw many Ethereum Maxis in comments praising their in-person involvement with the community. Others called it morale boosting.
Thomas appears to be focusing on clarity of communication and scaling Ethereum, but Hsiao-Wei posted that strengthening EF operations to support the growth of the ecosystem is a priority.
They pledged to ensure that EFs are not only visible where they need them, but that they are ready to “make space” when the ecosystem thrives on its own. This eliminates complaints that EFs will have too much influence on what appears to be a distributed network.
