Ethereum Foundation focuses on L1 expansion and UX improvement, Vitalik will focus on research direction

Tomasz K. Sta ń czak, the newly appointed co executive director of the Ethereum Foundation, announced in a post that the foundation will shift its research and development focus to L1 extension, L2 support, and user experience optimization, covering protocol upgrades such as Pectra, Fusaka, and Glamsterdam. Vitalik Buterin will reduce daily coordination work and focus on research promotion, including RISC V, zkVM, and privacy direction. He emphasized that Vitalik and other researchers' proposals are exploratory content that requires community discussion and scrutiny, with the goal of accelerating Ethereum's future breakthroughs.