A New Chapter for Ethereum | EFs Co-EDs Tomasz & Hsiao-Wei

Ethereum researchers and developers have been debating for years now. It was going to get shipped in Pectra. In the last minute, it got removed just because people didn't think it was ready. And now there's frustration because some people have spent tens, hundreds, thousands of hours poured into this thing. And now the community changed its mind, and now it's not going in.

Particularly, the the picture comment, many people actually got confused and believed that this discussion about the picture release that is coming the May 7, but it's it's actually Fusaka. We're talking about the thing six months from now. So it's not really a last moment removal. It's a removal of the feature that is designed to go in a fork that is not even fully scheduled. However, we want to accelerate it and say that, like, clearly, we'll deliver it for September and October. So the process is still very much about

Welcome to Bankless, where we explore the frontier of Internet money and Internet finance. Today on the podcast, we're exploring the frontier of Ethereum's leadership. Today on the episode, we have the two new co executive directors of the Ethereum Foundation, Tamash and Xiaowei. These two new co e f e d's represents a new chapter for Ethereum, for the Ethereum Foundation, and also for the Ethereum ecosystem too, I would say. This transition at the EF to new leadership has represented one shift of many that are needed for the direction of Ethereum that have left many hopeful about the future o

Yeah. Thanks for scheduling this at, you know, like, at twelve, in the morning, David. It

is currently 12:40AM our time. Welcome back. David and I are

barely getting through this intro because we're exhausted. I think we're gonna have to save the debrief for tomorrow, but I do wanna talk to you about this episode because there's a lot in here. Yeah. I would just say we got dates. We got timelines. Mhmm. We got it seems like some operational capacity to deliver.

CEO energy? Yeah.

There's a little bit

of, like, I know not a founder, but, like, some founder energy here. Okay? It's like some operational efficiencies. Just well, actually, Tamash is a founder. Yeah.