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Ethereum Foundation wraps up reorganisation, shifts focus to protocol and institutional support
The Ethereum Foundation has completed a months-long reorganisation and cut 54 staff, about 20 percent of its workforce. It has restructured around five domain clusters and will focus on strengthening the protocol and supporting the ecosystem. The new structure adds an operations cluster and teams reporting directly to management, with separate internal structures and performance metrics for each cluster. Severance is set at the higher of a tenure-based formula or local legal standards.
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Harvard sells all ethereum holdings after one quarter, exits ether ETF
Harvard Management Company sold all of Harvard University\'s ethereum exposure in the first quarter, unloading about $87 million of BlackRock\'s iShares Ethereum Trust, filings showed. It trimmed bitcoin exposure by selling about 2.3 million shares of spot bitcoin ETFs but kept more than 3 million shares of BlackRock\'s iShares Bitcoin Trust worth about $117 million. The move comes as ether has fallen more than 50 percent from its August 2025 peak near $5,000.
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Ethereum Foundation sees continued staff departures; 5 senior members leave in May
Two more key researchers have resigned from the Ethereum Foundation, lifting confirmed major departures this year to at least eight. Cointelegraph reported that Julian Ma and Carl Beek left after 4 and 7 years, respectively. Their exits bring to 5 the number of senior developers and researchers who have left in May alone. The departures follow earlier resignations and a leadership shake-up signalled by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin.