Two Major Developers Leave Foundation
The Ethereum Foundation has reported a new leadership reorganization within the Protocol team. The transition is due to the departure of the major developers Barnabe Monnot and Tim Beiko, while Alex Stokes will be taking a sabbatical.
According to the announcement, the newly designated co-leads will manage various areas of protocol research and development. Will Corcoran will lead the post-quantum security and related research and development efforts, Kev Wedderburn will head the zKEVM development team, and Fredrik will handle protocol security research, covering tied to the Trillion Dollar Security project.
Reorganization to Keep Ethereum Competitive
The Ethereum Foundation has continued structural changes, subsequently a serious reorganization effort to reinforce Ethereum’s competitiveness and long-term expandability in the market.
Furthermore, Ethereum Foundation increased its attention on areas such as quantum security, privacy research, and supporting an Ethereum-based app network. Also, Ethereum Foundation has also pulled analysis from the broader Ethereum community, specifically in early 2026 following what critics circulated on a controversial loyalty pledge.
Various major figures have also been currently excited about the Ethereum Foundation, while newly designated co-leads have been deployed through the network and related efforts.
According to the Ethereum’s organizational chart, Ethereum’s protocol teams or as they are known as Protocol research and development, are the main team at the Ethereum Foundation designated for designing, researching, developing, and coordinating Ethereum’s base protocol. This covers scaling solutions such as L2 data availability, cryptography, prototyping, security, zkEVM development, peer-to-peer networking, and alignment of AllCoreDevs meetings.
Generally, Ethereum’s major expansion upgrade, “Glamsterdam,” is projected to cover enhancement on increasing the Ethereum gas limit floor to 200 million and introduce Enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation (ePBS). According to the Ethereum Foundation, the Glamsterdam development ecosystem is currently online, and the ePBS is running firmly on a multi-client Glamsterdam devnet, with an external block builder process finalization end-to-end testing. Also, the protocol team also develops research and development on future improvements, such as “Hegota,” which primarily promotes FOCIL prototypes to strengthen Ethereum’s censorship resistance.
