Developer accuses Ethereum Foundation of undermining devs, creating ‘secret’ teams

A pb developer of the Geth Ethereum lawsuit has accused the Ethereum Foundation (EF) of secretly creating and backing a 2nd Geth improvement team. The Geth lawsuit is the bundle utilized by validators to execute Ethereum transactions.

According to an X station by halfway developer Péter Szilágyi, the enactment undermined the Geth improvement squad successful respective ways, including encouraging the developers to enactment astatine different firms, proposing wage cuts and offering $5 cardinal for the squad to rotation disconnected into a backstage company. Szilágyi wrote successful a Wednesday X post:

"EF started and funded a 2nd Geth squad wrong Nethermind. One '100% autarkic fork from us, with nary intended collaboration,' according to Josh Stark, and they didn't archer either me, Felix, oregon Martin until I recovered retired successful November 2025."

He corrected the twelvemonth further down the station chain, writing, “2024, whatev :).”

The Geth developer said helium was fired from the Ethereum Foundation pursuing a one-on-one gathering with Josh Stark, a typical for the Foundation, wherever helium confronted Stark astir the 2nd “secret” Geth team.

Source: Péter Szilágyi

Cointelegraph reached retired to the Ethereum Foundation for remark but hadn’t received a effect by clip of publication.

The allegations travel leadership changes astatine the Ethereum Foundation and a bid of initiatives aimed astatine promoting the blockchain protocol to organization investors to renew involvement successful the Ethereum network.

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Ethereum Foundation lays disconnected staff, pivots backing strategy

On June 2, the instauration announced unit cuts and revamped its halfway improvement squad to absorption connected scaling the protocol, expanding blobspace, and improving Ethereum's idiosyncratic experience, which critics person agelong argued is excessively analyzable for the mean person.

The Ethereum Foundation besides pivoted to a backing strategy driven by output from decentralized finance (DeFi) lending and borrowing arsenic opposed to its accepted method of selling Ether (ETH) connected the unfastened marketplace to money operations.

As portion of the caller treasury strategy, the instauration volition besides produce regular fiscal reports outlining operational costs and existent reserves to supply transparency to the assemblage connected the organization’s budgeting.

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