{"id":9027,"date":"2025-01-22T09:02:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T09:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=9027"},"modified":"2025-01-22T09:02:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T09:02:13","slug":"ethereum-core-developer-eric-conner-departs-as-vitalik-dismisses-calls-for-leadership-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=9027","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum Core Developer Eric Conner Departs as Vitalik Dismisses Calls for Leadership Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Eric Conner, a prominent core developer at Ethereum, has left the ecosystem community after a nearly 11-year affiliation citing network co-founder Vitalik Buterin&#8217;s dismissal of a leadership shake-up proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Conner is a co-author of EIP-1559, the major network change that shifted how transaction fees worked on Ethereum. He isn&#8217;t officially employed by Ethereum but has advised, invested, and was among those who led the charge on ecosystem growth since its early days.<\/p>\n<p>Conner is joining AI-focused protocol Fresya.AI, he said in a follow-up X post.<\/p>\n<p>Buterin swatted calls for changing the leadership structure at the Ethereum Foundation, which oversees the development of the second-largest blockchain by market cap.<\/p>\n<p>Buterin said on X that he wants to create a &#8220;board&#8221; to manage the foundation, but until then he is the leader. Buterin&#8217;s comment came amid calls by ecosystem stakeholders for a change in the network&#8217;s leadership with founding member <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/opinion\/2025\/01\/21\/the-ethereum-foundation-has-lost-its-way\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Donofrio opining<\/a> that the blockchain has lost its way. <\/p>\n<p>The network is also planning to roll-out its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/tech\/2025\/01\/17\/ethereum-developers-finally-schedule-pectra-upgrade\" target=\"_blank\">Pectra upgrade<\/a>, which promises speed efficiency and other improvement, in March.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Conner, a prominent core developer at Ethereum, has left the ecosystem community after a nearly 11-year affiliation citing network co-founder Vitalik Buterin&#8217;s dismissal of a leadership shake-up proposal. Conner is a co-author of EIP-1559, the major network change that shifted how transaction fees worked on Ethereum. He isn&#8217;t officially employed by Ethereum but has [&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-9027","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\/9027","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=9027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}