Bankless · Monday, June 29, 2026
The Ethereum Foundation (EF) has redefined its mandate to focus on core properties like censorship resistance, open source, privacy, and security, leading to a reduction in its overall scope. ETH Labs will now focus on scaling Ethereum's reach and adoption to the world, addressing areas the EF is deprioritizing. This shift allows both organizations to specialize and collaborate effectively.
“The Ethereum Foundation has put out a new mandate at the beginning of this year and has kind of come forward with a lot of clarity in what it tends to work on. And that includes basically reducing its focus to some extent and really double down on crops. So censorship resistance, open source, privacy, and security.”
“So my impression at least is, I don't want to speak too much for the Ethereum Foundation, my impression is that scaling is less of a priority now for the Ethereum Foundation. As you already said, it actually comes out of the mandate. And so that's a natural topic for us to basically come in and have an impact.”
“And then ETH Labs is there to kind of scale them to the world as well.”