Ethereum Foundation Executive Director: Vitalik's proposal is intended to start a dialogue, and community review has the right to veto

Odaily Planet Daily News: Ethereum Foundation Executive Director Tomasz K. Stańczak posted on X platform, stating that with recent leadership changes at the Ethereum Foundation, their goal is to give Vitalik more time for research and exploration, rather than daily coordination or crisis management. Vitalik's insights and direction-setting accelerate significant long-term breakthroughs. His recent articles on RISC-V and zkVM have advanced promising development paths, while his privacy articles have helped the community realign around the foundation's core values. He wants to clarify that Vitalik's proposals are always influential but are intended to initiate dialogue and encourage progress in challenging research areas. Community review may significantly modify or even reject proposals. They hope other researchers will have the same freedom to raise difficult questions and propose alternatives, such as @drakefjustin and @dankrad. Ethereum researchers often ask readers to recognize the exploratory nature of their posts and proposals. Focus remains crucial. Internally at EF, they will shift most research efforts toward short-term goals, aiming to address user experience and scalability challenges in the next two protocol upgrades. They are focusing on L1 expansion, L2 expansion support, and major UX improvements in Pectra, Fusaka, and Glamsterdam upgrades (including interoperability). Meanwhile, they are exploring how to complete projects currently expected to take three to five years in a shorter timeframe. Their top researchers' papers are helping some projects deliver within one to two years through initiatives like next-generation execution and consensus layers.