{"id":29959,"date":"2025-06-03T12:02:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T12:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=29959"},"modified":"2025-06-03T12:02:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T12:02:03","slug":"ethereum-foundation-lays-off-rd-staff-rebrands-division-to-focus-on-scaling-data-availability-and-user-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=29959","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum Foundation Lays Off R&amp;D Staff, Rebrands Division To Focus On Scaling, Data Availability And User Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The <strong>Ethereum Foundation<\/strong>, a key supporter of <strong>Ethereum<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/eth\/usd\">ETH<\/a>), laid off research and development staff on Monday as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/25\/04\/45047461\/i-dont-think-ethereum-will-survive-more-than-10-to-15-years-cardano-founder-charles-hoskinson-says\">part of a strategic restructuring<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened: <\/strong>The Switzerland-based nonprofit announced it is rebranding its Protocol Research and Development division as \u201cProtocol\u201d with three core priorities: scaling Ethereum\u2019s base layer, expanding blobspace for data availability, and improving user experience. <\/p>\n<p>The foundation did not disclose the number of affected employees, stating only that \u201csome members of PR&amp;D won\u2019t be continuing with the Ethereum Foundation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Co-executive director <strong>Hsiao-Wei Wang<\/strong> said on X the restructuring aims to \u201cempower our internal teams to focus more clearly and drive key initiatives forward.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote ...>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/06\/45743101\/ethereum-foundation-lays-off-rd-staff-rebrands-division-to-focus-on-scaling-data-availabili\" alt=\"Ethereum\" foundation lays off r staff rebrands division to focus on scaling data availability and user experience>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ethereum Foundation, a key supporter of Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH), laid off research and development staff on Monday as part of a strategic restructuring. What Happened: The Switzerland-based nonprofit announced it is rebranding its Protocol Research and Development division as \u201cProtocol\u201d with three core priorities: scaling Ethereum\u2019s base layer, expanding blobspace for data availability, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-29959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}